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Also, the narrator can pronounce pièce de résistance perfectly, but any words or names in Urdu are to be butchered to the high heavens 🙂‍↕️

Some of the language gives me pause, it leaves little room for the reader to breathe, but moments in Habib’s writing sparkle like “yes, that’s what it’s like” such as when she describes eating the skin that forms on the top of boiling chai or the bubbles created by gender segregated spaces and the confusing and conflicting comfort that arises from them.