Never a dull moment in Mirali on February 1, 2014Fatima Bhutto ingeniously crafts her first novel, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, around life in a small town in the frontier province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The fictional town of Mirali is a microcosm not merely of the northwest frontier region of Pakistan but also of the country as a whole. Every decision of the […]