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1 author picked In Other Rooms, Other Wonders as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Daniyal Mueenuddin derives the marvelous from the depiction of wealthy and poor Pakistani characters surviving as gracefully or gracelessly as humanly possible.
Reading at times like social anthropology, at times like magical realism, the stories are folk tales with inspections of and lessons about human foibles. Characters come to life with large and small schemes, machinations, and quasi-unconscious action that arises from a combination of tradition, desperation, and privilege.
The underlying humor, both dark and loving, is something the writer shares with the reader.
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