Hold On, and Keep Going

Naveed Iftikhar’s debut novel Hold On follows Hira Gul from a conservative household in Kohat to Peshawar, Islamabad and beyond, tracing the slow, uneven business of growing up female in Pakistan, the friendships that don’t survive adulthood, the parents who mean well and still wound, the relationships that promise rescue and rarely deliver it.

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