In a country where women have been exterminated, one little girl remains alive. Her name is Meiji. Her uncles, eldest, middle and youngest, have raised her against all odds. As her body buds into puberty, her aging guardians realize they cannot protect her from the vicious Generals who now dominate their world, assisted by artificially […]
In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chandas brothers are arrested for murder. Telling the story of the next twelve months, Maps for Lost Lovers opens the heart of a family at the crossroads of culture, community, […]
Sadia Shepard grew up just outside of Boston, in a home where cultures intertwined her father a white American Protestant and her mother, a Muslim from Pakistan. One day, when she was thirteen, she learned that Nana, her beloved maternal grandmother, was not a Muslim like the rest of her Pakistani family but had begun […]
From her position of wealth and happy respectability, Fanny Hill looks back at her early life and disreputable adventures. Arriving in London alone, poor and innocent, she falls into the hands of a brothel-keeper. But only when she is separated from the man she loves does she enrol in the unhappy profession of prostitution. Fanny […]
The married couple in this novel pull off a remarkable achievement: They purchase a three-story house with oodles of bedrooms, and, on a middle-class income, in the 70s, fill it to the brim with happy children and visiting relatives. Their holiday gatherings are sumptuous celebrations of life and togetherness. And then the fifth child arrives.
The Sensuous Woman is a book written by Terry Garrity and issued by Lyle Stuart. Published first during 1969 with the pseudonym “J”, it is a detailed instruction manual concerning sexuality for women.