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Mira Sethi

April 22, 2021 @ 6:00 pm

reading from her new fiction collection

Are You Enjoying?

published by Alfred Knopf

This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom.

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Event is free, but registration is required.

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An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart.

From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home–including the bedroom–these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor, compassion, psychological acuity, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student’s preparations for his sister’s wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited, confident, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent.

Details

Date:
April 22, 2021
Time:
6:00 pm
Website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mira-sethi-tickets-142196655023

Organizer

City Lights Bookstore
Phone:
(415)-362-8193
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Venue

City Lights
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133 United States
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Phone:
(415)-362-8193
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