You, a poor village boy, want above all else to achieve fantastic wealth. Here, in twelve steps, is how to do so. Just please try not to lose your heart to that pretty girl along the way.
Tense and possibly American, you encounter a bearded stranger at a cafe in Lahore. His name is Changez. He left behind a high-flying career and love affair in New York. And night has begun to fall.
Darashikoh Shezad is an ex-banker, pot-smoker, and downwardly mobile heroin addict who also happens to have fallen for his best friend's wife. He is on trial. You are to be his judge.
Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
Collected essays on life, art, and politics from 2000-2014, with musings on topics ranging from writing, migration, fatherhood, and the Pakistan arts scene to drones, religion, war, and being regularly stopped at airports.
