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“Nine autobiographical tales that move easily from side to side among Pakistan, Britain, and the US. . . . She forays lightly into Pakistani history, and deeply
into the history of her friends and family. . . . The Suleri women at home in Pakistan make this book sing.”—Daniel Wolfe, New York Times Book Review
“A jewel of insight and beauty. . . . Suleri’s voice has the same authority when she speaks about Pakistani politics as it does in her literary interludes.”—Rone Tempest, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“The creator has a gift for rendering her circle of relatives with a couple of, deft strokes, turning them out as whole and complete as eggs.”—Anita Desai, Washington Post Book World
“Meatless Days takes the reader through a Third World which will surprise and confound him at the same time as it records the creator’s similar perplexities whilst coming to terms with the West. Those voyages Suleri narrates in great strings of words and images so wealthy that they left this reader . . . hungering for more.”—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune
“Dazzling. . . . Suleri is a postcolonial Proust to Rushdie’s phantasmagorical Pynchon.”—Henry Louise Gates, Jr., Voice Literary Supplement