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Small Scale Sinners - by Mahreen Sohail (Paperback)

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  • An astonishing debut examining women's lives in Pakistan and interrogating the burdens, and freedom, of love.
  • Author(s): Mahreen Sohail
  • 136 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)

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Book Synopsis



An astonishing debut examining women's lives in Pakistan and interrogating the burdens, and freedom, of love.

In twelve electric, potent stories, Mahreen Sohail explores the facets of women's lives, as daughters, siblings, and mothers, in marriage, and alone. She writes of women who are fluent in the language of grief, but refuse to be confined by it; of lives that are full of desire and betrayal; of a world in which menace lurks just under the surface of the ordinary. Neighbors spy on each other; estranged families reunite at a funeral; schoolgirls are caught up in a murder.

"A flawless eye for detail meets a daring instinct to tack and swerve and startle in stories that are wonderful on sisterhood, on sex, on Pakistan, on coming of age. Small Scale Sinners offers the same thrill as celebrated first collections by Jamel Brinkley and Colin Barrett and Yoon Choi: the pleasure of watching a singular sensibility awaken to its own expression" (Garth Risk Hallberg, editor of The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant, and author of City on Fire).



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Mahreen Sohail's debut offers the same thrill as celebrated first collections by Jamel Brinkley and Colin Barrett and Yoon Choi: the pleasure of watching a singular sensibility awaken to its own expression. In these pages, a flawless eye for detail meets a daring instinct to tack and swerve and startle; stories rewrite themselves paragraph by paragraph and sometimes in the space of a single phrase, always following the pulse of life. Small Scale Sinners is wonderful on sisterhood, on sex, on Pakistan, on coming of age... It brought me to the "plasma level of happiness."

--Garth Risk Hallberg, editor of The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant, and author of City on Fire

Pure brilliance. I can't remember the last time I was so floored by a collection, these strange and wondrous narratives that revel in the sensation that, as one character puts it, "something wild is travelling in each of our bodies." Sohail is funny and dark and absolutely in control, and she has written a masterful debut.

--Kevin Wilson, author of Now Is Not The Time to Panic

Audacious and precise. Small Scale Sinners centers young women who act boldly, even as grief looms, testing liberation and its cost.

--Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, author of My Monticello


Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.19 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 136
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Short Stories (single author)
Publisher: Public Space Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Mahreen Sohail
Language: English
Street Date: September 16, 2025
TCIN: 92203519
UPC: 9798985976915
Item Number (DPCI): 247-26-3998
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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