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Talking with boys : stories / Tayyba Kanwal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kanwal, Tayyba, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pakistani Americans--Fiction.
- Pakistani Americans.
- Immigrant families--Fiction.
- Immigrant families.
- Houston (Tex.)--Fiction.
- Houston (Tex.).
- Genre:
- Linked stories.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 180 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Black Lawrence Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- In a collection of linked tales filled with irony, humor, and magic, Talking with Boys introduces an unforgettable cast of characters in the Pakistani diaspora in Houston navigating crises of their own making and beyond their control. Via generations and geographies, the stories expand from Houston into tales from the characters’ pasts in Dubai and Lahore. A community of Pakistani immigrants distract ICE with unlikely bait. A housekeeper in a Dubai mansion plots to liberate her fellow indentured workers. In Lahore, an empty nester finds herself bound by more than a jinxed bracelet. Throughout, Tayyba Kanwal’s remarkable characters navigate economic upheavals, political turmoil, and personal betrayals to pursue love, plot for survival, and play subtle power games to triumph against patriarchal forces of all genders.
- Contents:
- The girl who ran
- The renaming of Tooti Sadak
- A legal alien
- Talking with boys
- Mehr
- Huma and the birds
- Top Nanny, season 5
- Mailee and the saint of horses
- Little mother
- A shade for the window
- I breathed you first
- Telling tales
- Mrs. T receives a gift
- Rotis
- Bungalow
- Acknowledgments.
- ISBN:
- 9781625571793
- 1625571798
- OCLC:
- 1523022436
- Publisher Number:
- 90103710282
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