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Talking with boys : stories / Tayyba Kanwal.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.A57 T35 2026
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- 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:
- short stories.
- Linked stories.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 180 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Black Lawrence Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- "A community of Pakistani immigrants in Houston 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 the jinxed bracelet her adult son has gifted her. Talking with Boys is a collection of linked stories filled with irony, humor, and magic. Spanning generations and continents -- from Lahore to Dubai to Houston -- these characters navigate economic upheavals, political turmoil, and personal betrayals. Amid crises both imposed and self-inflicted, the people in these stories pursue love, plot for survival and play subtle power games to triumph against patriarchal forces of all genders." -- Publisher's website.
- 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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