Meatless Days

Description

‘Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I’ve ever read’ – Kamila Shamsie, winner of the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction, from the introduction

Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the author’s family two years apart, her personal crisis spirals into a wider meditation on universal questions: about being a woman when you’re too busy being a mother or a sister or a wife to consider your own womanhood; about how it feels to begin life in a new language; about how our lives are changed by the people that leave them. This is a heart-breaking, hopeful and profound book that will get under your skin.

‘Extraordinary… as an evocation of family love, with all its sharpness, pain and need, Meatless Days is almost faultless’ – New Statesman

Author Biography

Sara Suleri is an academic, critic and author. She grew up in Lahore and earned degrees from Kinnaird College and University of the Punjab, and later a doctorate from Indiana University. She is a Professor Emeritus at Yale University and lives in the USA.