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What Remains After a Fire (Stories)
by Kanza Javed
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About the book
In eight unflinching and stunningly crafted stories, Kanza Javed unspools the lives of characters desperately trying to forge a path for themselves on the margins of society. An addict teaches his young son to shoot feral dogs on the streets of Lahore. A Christian nurse gets drawn into a plan to trap the ghost of her patient's former lover. A Pakistani student in a small Appalachlan town grapples with a startling act of violence that shatters her Illusions of safety and freedom. A lonely wife, trapped Indoors by a harsh winter, becomes Increasingly obsessed with a cloth worry doll left behind by a previous tenant.
Written with keen psychological Insight and remarkable empathy, these stories reach across divides of class, gender, and religion as Javed deftly examines questions of identity and agency, belonging and loss. What Remains After a Fire is a moving portrayal of fiercely resilient characters who desire more than what their circumstances can offer them and what these desires ultimately cost them.
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