We Are Not In Pakistan

Why should the very things we share create such distance between us? The ten stories of We are not in Pakistan illuminate a paradox: love and fear draw us together, yet drive us to extremes of separation.
Eliciting amusement, curiosity, and wonder mingled with sadness for a post 9/11 world, Shauna Singh Baldwin lures us toward the displaced men, women, and other animals who populate these stories. Along the way, she explores her complex human responses to technology art, and, most of all, our fellow humans.


Shauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, What the Body Remembers, the story of two Sikh women in a polygamous marriage in colonial India was published by Knopf, Canada, Transworld UK, and Doubleday USA. It received the 2000 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean region) and has been translated into fourteen languages. She is the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and a co-author of a Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to America. Shauna’s awards include the international Nehru Award for public speaking and the Shastri Award for English Prose. She received the 1995 Writers Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award.