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Welcome to Boswell Book Company's website! Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm. Masks required at Boswell for browsing. The store will close for bro wsing 30 minutes before start time for in-store events. In-store browsing, curbside pickup, UPS, USPS priority, and USPS media mail (for in-state delivery) are all available. Boswell presents a special afternoon virtual event with Samira Shackle in conversation with Audrey Nowakowski, a Producer and Host of WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio's Lake Effect. Click here to register for this virtual event, broadcast via Zoom . And order your copy of Karachi Vice right now, too! Karachi - Pakistans largest city is a sprawling metropolis of twenty million people, twice the size of New York City. It is a place of political turbulence in which those who have power wield it with brutal and partisan force. It takes an insider to know where is safe, who to trust, and what makes Karachi tick. Shackle explores the city of her mothers birth in the company of a handful of Karachiites whose individual experiences tell the bigger story of Karachi over the past decade as it has endured a terrifying crime wave: a period in which the Taliban arrive in Pakistan, adding to the daily perils for its residents and pushing their city into the international spotlight. The Economist calls Shackles debut A moving account of the struggles of everyday heroes - and of the unhappy metropolis that needs them. And from Rabeea Saleem, writing for the Times Literary Supplement: Sobering and gripping meticulously constructs a vibrant mosaic of a citys underbelly, while disentangling the ways in which Karachi is enmeshed with crime lords, gangs, political interests and militants. Samira Shackle is Editor of New Humanist magazine and a regular contributor to the Guardian Long Read. She frequently reports from Pakistan, where she has family, and spent extensive time there working on this book. She has twice been a media fellow at Columbia Universitys Center for the Study of Social Difference, and in 2019 she was ...Read more

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