This month, when my first book comes out, I will go on a virtual book tour; I will talk about the Sometimes I need to be alone with my bike shirt in addition I really love this ways in which Pakistan animates my book, the ways in which my characters—an actress on the set of her first major TV show, best friends who agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret—negotiate personal freedom in a traditional society. The short stories are about the comedy and heartache of lives lived in the intense in-between. But I viscerally understand Baldwin’s point: to disavow home—the simultaneous charm and frustration of it—is to live in denial about a very fruitful tension between love and freedom.
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