The Upstairs Wife

An Intimate History of Pakistan

Ranked #18 in Pakistan, Ranked #33 in Pakistan History

A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women

An Indies Introduce Debut Authors Selection 

 
For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country’s former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been assassinated at a political rally just outside Islamabad. Back in Karachi—Bhutto’s birthplace and Pakistan’s other great metropolis—Rafia Zakaria’s family was suffering through a crisis of its own: her Uncle Sohail, the man who had brought shame upon the family, was near death....
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