Books

I'm reading "The Eyewitness" by Muhammad Saeed Mehdi. It's a self biography by a Pakistani civil servant since the 1950s. I'm a Pakistani American who recently visited Pakistan for the first time in 20+ years. I bought the book while I was over there.

I'm woefully ignorant of the history of Pakistan despite my parents complaining about Pakistani politics my entire life. I will say that book is amateurishly written, it's clearly written by someone my grandfather's age who didn't hire a professional writer to help with this book. It is still fascinating because it's like listening to my grandfather tell a story about characters I've heard about my whole life. It's about events my parents and grandparents lived through. Its giving my a different perspective on the lives my parents led before moving to the US.