The Mongrel Book of Voices (Volume 1: Breakups)

A care package for the thinking ex-lover, this anthology from a new indie press in Karachi features twenty–one writers from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Iran, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, the US, the UK and Egypt breaking up breakups with poems, lyrical prose, short stories and a comic. Writers including Harris Khalique, Whiti Hereaka, Mohamed Abdelnabi, Uttaran Das Gupta, Amna Chaudhry, Abdullah Wesali, Risham Amjad, Soonha Abro, Yusra Amjad, Maryam Ala Amjadi, Shadab Zeest Hashmi and Mehr F. Husain offer interpretations as varied as slicing up a pavlova, splitting from your own mind on a hospital bed, seeing an ex-lover’s face through a crowd, music from across enemy lines, cannibalism and 101 names for a single woman.