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“This book is by Taha Kehar. I really like the fact that he has dealt with death in a comic manner. This woman, Nazia, dies at the very beginning, and we never actually meet her, but we know her through her friends. They paint a picture of who Nazia was. Nazia has a very strange request of her husband and her friends, and that is to throw a party instead of a funeral. Funerals in Pakistan are a three-day event, people are expected to be very sad and to cry and be in grief for days, so this request was such a strange manner in which to celebrate a life. And then, to top that, Nazia calls a hypnotist to hypnotize her friends, her sister, and her husband, to get closure. I found that it was just a really great way to deal with a sad topic. It isn’t an investigation. It isn’t a murder mystery. It isn’t grief, loss; it’s just this fun book. I really enjoyed reading it.” Read more...
Safinah Danish Elahi, Novelist
