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Karachi, You’re Killing Me!
Karachi, You’re Killing Me! | Saba Imtiaz
Ayesha is a twenty-something reporter in one of the world’s most dangerous cities. Her assignments range from showing up at bomb sites and picking her way through scattered body parts to interviewing her boss’s niece, the couture-cupcake designer. In between dicing with death and absurdity, Ayesha despairs over the likelihood of ever meeting a nice guy, someone like her old friend Saad, whose shoulder she cries on after every romantic misadventure. Her choices seem limited to narcissistic, adrenaline-chasing reporters who’ll do anything to get their next story—to the spoilt offspring of the Karachi elite who’ll do anything to cure their boredom. Her most pressing problem, however, is how to straighten her hair during the chronic power outages. Karachi, You’re Killing Me! is Bridget Jones’s Diary meets The Diary of a Social Butterfly—a comedy of manners in a city with none.
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Someone who's had a poster of Imran Khan holding the 1992 World Cup teophy tacked above her bed for most of her life-had never forgiven him first for joining politics and second for everything that's come out of his mouth since

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Ameerhamzaasif
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My expectations with this book were not very high before starting it, thanks to the reviews on Goodreads.com.
The book was more of a 'daily diary' of the protagonist with no interesting inciting incident to it. The protagonist's continuous whinning about her job duties was quite annoying.
Being a debut book, it's an average effort also is a progressive step for Pakistani writers.