Tehmina Khan was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She holds degrees from Kinnaird College, Lahore, and Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis. Now residing in Toronto, Khan is at work on a novel.
Fiction (Short stories)
Things She Could Never Have: Stories
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2017.
PS8621 .H3535 A6 2017
Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)
Accomplished, sensitive, and often disturbing, these stories take us into the lives of modern Pakistanis—privileged and poor, gay, trans, and straight, men and women, in Karachi and Toronto. “Whisperings of the Devil” takes us into the mind of a mistreated maidservant’s boy who gets seduced into the role of a suicide bomber. In “To Allah We Pray,” two privileged and educated young men, one of them home from Toronto, gallivant through the streets of Karachi, finally walking into a doomed mosque. “Things She Could Never Have” is a love story about two young trans women living in Karachi. “Born on the First of July” opens the door into the home of a Toronto girl who has left to join ISIS and the devastated family she leaves behind. “The First” will astonish many readers by its depiction of sexual encounters of young college girls in Pakistan. These and other stories link us into the complexities of a sometimes troubled and often misrepresented Muslim society.