Mohammed Hanif delivers a shockingly funny new novel set in
steaming Karachi, about second chances, thwarted ambitions and love
found in the most unlikely places.
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments need a
miracle. Alice Bhatti may be just what they're looking for. She's
the daughter of a part-time healer in the French Colony, Karachi's
infamous Christian slum, and it seems she has, unhappily, inherited
his part-time gift. With a bit of begrudging but inspired
improvisation, Alice begins to bring succor to the hospital's
overflowing patients. But all is not miraculous. Alice is a
Christian in an Islamic world, ensnared in the red tape of hospital
bureaucracy, trapped by the caste system, and torn between her
patients, her father and her husband--who is about to drag Alice
into a situation so dangerous that perhaps not even a miracle will
be able to save them.
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