I absolutely adored this book. It took me a while to give my review because I decided to read it in chunks but it’s something I am going to re read over and over. Walsh offers a beautiful view of Pakistan in all shades - the good, the bad and the incredible. Through our nine characters we gain a new perspective on Pakistani culture and experiences in tumultuous times.

Declan Walsh compresses his several years' of living and reporting in Pakistan into an excellently exhaustive, in-depth and up-to-date look into a nation long-suffering from a perpetual identity crisis along numerous internal fault lines, yet still continues to carry on with an almost impossible resilience.