Her Hindi station is at odds with the Malayalam station which are managed by expats from Kerala, known as Malayalam Mafia. Sameera lands a job as a Radio Jockey in Orange Studio which she is excited about. He is a high-ranking police official who got her father a job in the City, in the Police department. She stays with her father and relatives in ‘Taya Ghar’, an extended family home, where her uncle aka Taya is all powerful. Jasmine Days by Benyamin tells the story of Sameera Parvin, a Pakistani expat trying to find her way in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, fictively called The City. Till that place become yours, till you find your own equilibrium, there will be a gap between you and the place.” Sometimes you have to work hard to earn your little corner in it. Often you have to meet the place on its own terms.
And the place also takes a little time to accept the new person. That knowledge that this place is not mine, these ways of talking are not mine, these silences are not mine, this etiquette is not mine. “You know how it is when you arrive in a new place and feel like you don’t belong there? That hesitation to reckon with new geography. It was also doing the rounds on Instagram and most of the bookstagrammers had high praises for it. The beautiful cover was another plus which made me want to own it. If not for this award, I wouldn’t have even known of such a book (says a lot about my taste in literature, doesn’t it?). Yay me!Įver since Jasmine Days by Benyamin had won the JCB Prize for Literature, I wanted to read it.
But I made sure that a week into the new year, I ticked off three books from my TBR. However, I was in a dilemma as to which book I had to pick as my first read of 2019. I am on a book ban and I am trying to read as many books as possible from it. My bookshelf has quite a few hundreds of books right now- brand new, untouched.
One of my resolutions for this year is to read good books, especially from my TBR.
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