Summary
"A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city... Full description
- Prologue
- The Return
- Birth of a Nation
- The Scent of Other Cities
- A Suburban Wedding
- Half a Wife
- The Woman in Charge
- The Graveyards of Karachi
- Loving and Leaving
- A Return to the Original
- Epilogue.