Sorry for the Inconvenience
A Memoir
Published on 1. July 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-1-6625-2097-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Incredible...this story ripped my heart in two, had me grabbing for the tissues, and then put me back together again." -Mindy Kaling
From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and the volatility of family, friendship, and, inevitably, love.
Pakistani American Farah Naz Rishi's first year of college was perfectly, thankfully, uneventful. After all, she was in college to learn and forge a path of self-sufficiency, especially after her last relationship fell apart-dashing her mother's aspirations for an early marriage. What could Farah expect, anyway? For the ideal guy to just conveniently waltz into her life? Life isn't a love story.
Enter Stephen, a Jamaican student with an open smile and a disarmingly laid-back attitude. It's not love at first sight. And there's no way Farah's mother would approve of him as marriage material. But they have something better: an inexplicable connection. Through a series of impossible tragedies, grief, and trying to find her place in the world, Stephen is always there as Farah's confidant, champion, and, most of all, best friend. Anything more could ruin a perfectly good thing...Right?
Spanning thirteen years of complex family dynamics and a surprising kinship, Farah Naz Rishi's story explores the unpredictability of love-familial, platonic, and romantic, but never truly instant.
From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and the volatility of family, friendship, and, inevitably, love.
Pakistani American Farah Naz Rishi's first year of college was perfectly, thankfully, uneventful. After all, she was in college to learn and forge a path of self-sufficiency, especially after her last relationship fell apart-dashing her mother's aspirations for an early marriage. What could Farah expect, anyway? For the ideal guy to just conveniently waltz into her life? Life isn't a love story.
Enter Stephen, a Jamaican student with an open smile and a disarmingly laid-back attitude. It's not love at first sight. And there's no way Farah's mother would approve of him as marriage material. But they have something better: an inexplicable connection. Through a series of impossible tragedies, grief, and trying to find her place in the world, Stephen is always there as Farah's confidant, champion, and, most of all, best friend. Anything more could ruin a perfectly good thing...Right?
Spanning thirteen years of complex family dynamics and a surprising kinship, Farah Naz Rishi's story explores the unpredictability of love-familial, platonic, and romantic, but never truly instant.
Reviews / Votes
"With forthright prose and dashes of acerbic humor, Rishi does justice to the complexities of inchoate affection and cross-cultural clashes. It's powerful stuff." -Publishers Weekly"This memoir is incredibly unputdownable-readers will leave it breathless and in awe of Rishi's clarity and strength...All will be endlessly grateful to Rishi for sharing so generously her experiences of the beautiful contradictions of family." -Booklist (starred review)
"Eloquent, intimate, fascinating and memorable..." -Midwest Book Review
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6625-2097-6 (9781662520976)
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Persons
Farah Naz Rishi (she/they) is the author of I Hope You Get This Message and It All Comes Back to You. A Pakistani American writer and voice actor, she received her BA in English from Bryn Mawr College, her JD from Lewis & Clark Law School, and her love of weaving stories from the Odyssey Writing Workshop. When Farah is not writing, she's probably hanging out with video game characters. For more information, visit www.farahnazrishi.com.