Thank you to all my dearest friends, who listened to the stories, my anxieties, fears, and hopes for this book in the years it took to make it possible. Gratitude also to the strong women I am so lucky to have in my life.
BEACON PRESS
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© 2015 by Rafia Zakaria
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Text design and composition by Kim Arney
Many names and other identifying characteristics of people mentioned
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Zakaria, Rafia.
The upstairs wife : an intimate history of Pakistan / Rafia Zakaria.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-8070-0336-7 (hardback : acid-free paper)
eISBN 978-0-8070-0337-4 (ebook)
1. Zakaria, Rafia, 1978—Family. 2. Karachi (Pakistan) —Biography.
3. Aunts—Pakistan—Karachi—Biography. 4. Muslim women—Pakistan—Karachi—Biography. 5. Polygamy—Social aspects—Pakistan—Karachi.
6. Women—Pakistan—Social conditions. 7. Misogyny—Pakistan.
8. Pakistan—Social conditions. 9. Pakistan—History.
10. Pakistan—Religious life and customs. I. Title.
DS392.2.K3Z26 2015
954.91ʹ830509252—dc23
[B]
2014027339
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