The Story Of a Widow: a Novel

After the death of her husband, Mona finds herself settling ambivalently into a new life. But the calm rhythm of her days-gardening, cooking time with her neighbours and family in Karachi -is upset by the appearance of the new tenant in her friend's house.

The Story of a Widow is a beautifully observant novel, one that pays careful attention to the delicate movements of the heart in romantic and family life. But it is equally concerned with the mores of a society in which traditional roles both support and constrain men and-particularly-women.

Gently humorous and profoundly perceptive, The Story of a Widow is the moving tale of a woman's discovery of her voice, and herself.