The Crooked Line (Asian Writers) Paperback – January 1, 1995

Great condition, great book.

The Crooked Line is like the Indian burn your friend would dare you to get back in the third grade: it starts out slow, with the expectations you have for it based on the book jacket you've read hovering in the back of your mind, making you raise in eyebrow in anticipation; as Chugtai's protagonist, Shaman, matures and tries to build relationships with men and other women that ultimately fail, it gets warmer and warmer, and where before you were expectant, now you are in the thick of it, your heart breaking when shaman's breaks and leaping when she discovers her rebelling voice; and then finally the burn reaches it's height with Shaman's relationship with Taylor the Irishman, and right when you pull your arm away because you can't take anymore is when Chugtai ends her tale, only you actually want more.An Urdu novel and a partition novel, The Crooked Line is above all a feminist novel, with the defiant and ever questioning Shaman fighting to create a place for herself in a world where she is always seen as a "wretch."

Delivery took some time,but overall a nice experience