When Pakistan's first social media celebrity is murdered, a journalist seeking to understand her life and death creates an intimate and unforgettable portrait of a woman who broke the rules, and the changing face of the Muslim world.
Sanam Maher is a journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. For more than a decade, she has covered stories on Pakistan's art and culture, business, politics, religious minorities and women. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Caravan, Roads and Kingdoms and Buzzfeed. A Woman Like Her is her first book.
A breakthrough book, A Woman Like Her bracingly illuminates an
increasingly global if yet under-covered phenomenon: the tragic
collision between the forged selves of social media and the brute
realities of ordinary life. It also describes, with rare intimacy,
some profound cultural tumult in a society that is largely known
for its political dramas
*Pankaj Mishra*
A terrific achievement. Sanam Maher’s sensitive, nuanced portrait
restores humanity, in all its complexity, to her subject
*Olivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy*
Written without judgement, without pandering, without reducing its
subject to a stereotype, this book is brilliant and terrifying
*Meena Kandasamy, author of the Women’s Prize shortlisted When I
Hit You*
A book about killing that tells us how we live now. Sanam Maher has
her ear to the ground and a storyteller's voice that is intimate
and yet soars to the skies.
*Mohammed Hanif*
In her excavation of the life of the defiant, glamorous Qandeel
Baloch, Sanam Maher has put out the highest calibre of
investigative journalism, written with tragedy, poetry and passion
befitting of its subject
*Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood*
Only one of Pakistan's finest young writers could carry weighty
themes like honour, fame, and violence with such deliberation and
poise
*Fatima Bhutto*
Qandeel was a marvellous blaze. She set our dark world on fire and
made enough light to expose the hypocrisies of Pakistan's pious
patriarchy. In Sanam Maher's terrific and necessary book, these
flames burn brighter than ever
*Sonia Faleiro*
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