Book description
Zaki Shirazi has arrived back in Lahore, Pakistan, to celebrate the
wedding of his childhood friend and elder cousin Samar Api to her long
sought-after 'Amitabh' - a stand-in for the Bollywood star she always
dreamed of marrying. Amidst the flurry of preparations in the house in
which he grew up, Zaki can't help but revisit the past - his childhood
as a fatherless boy growing up in a household of outspoken women and
his and Samar's intertwined journeys from youth to adulthood.
Raised to consider themselves 'part of the same litter', Zaki and
Samar watched American television together, memorized dialogues from
Bollywood movies and attended dangerous protests with Zaki's
campaigning, political journalist mother. But as Zaki becomes drawn
into Samar's secret life of romantic schemes and lends her his support
in trying to orchestrate the future, they both find themselves
suffering the consequences . . .
