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Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir
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“Incredible…this story ripped my heart in two, had me grabbing for the tissues, and then put me back together again.” —Mindy Kaling
From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and the volatility of family, friendship, and, inevitably, love.
Pakistani American Farah Naz Rishi’s first year of college was perfectly, thankfully, uneventful. After all, she was in college to learn and forge a path of self-sufficiency, especially after her last relationship fell apart—dashing her mother’s aspirations for an early marriage. What could Farah expect, anyway? For the ideal guy to just conveniently waltz into her life? Life isn’t a love story.
Enter Stephen, a Jamaican student with an open smile and a disarmingly laid-back attitude. It’s not love at first sight. And there’s no way Farah’s mother would approve of him as marriage material. But they have something better: an inexplicable connection. Through a series of impossible tragedies, grief, and trying to find her place in the world, Stephen is always there as Farah’s confidant, champion, and, most of all, best friend. Anything more could ruin a perfectly good thing…Right?
Spanning thirteen years of complex family dynamics and a surprising kinship, Farah Naz Rishi’s story explores the unpredictability of love—familial, platonic, and romantic, but never truly instant.
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Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir
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Original price was: $16.99.$5.99Current price is: $5.99.
kathleen –
I thought it had a lot of raw emotions. I liked the honesty of it all. As we all know families are complicated, but the way she let’s you into her culture was beautifully written.
Dietcokeani –
This is a well written book that captured my attention and kept it. I feel like I’ve been through a virtual reality experience of her very interestingly life. She has a great knack for storytelling – including the right amount of detail to give context and keep the flow moving.
Her story is one that should be told. We need to know how others experience the world, but it’s so often hard to sift through the obvious agenda and lack of trust in the reader.
This is a book worth your time. I highly recommend it.
And ps to the author – I’m glad you made it through all that and shared your story.I have no doubt you’ve saved some other fledgling writer’s soul and inspired others to dream the big dreams.
bubbe barbara –
Farah NR bluntly, lovingly tells a story of family everyone will relate to in one way or another. Their writing flows, billows, seeps, and is nearly impossible to put down. The pain they’ve experienced in life, their misunderstanding and confusion about love flesh out the structure of her message: Family and Love are hard, messy, exhilarating and challenging. Well worth a reread. I rarely give 5 stars.
Barbara West –
Most families can think of themselves as difunctional but this family are trying to get it right and the children have to pay the price. I was so sad at what Farah had to deal with but what a gift Stephan was.
Mia –
Such a touching memoir that brings laughter, tears, and hope to the reader. It’s a raw, honest retelling of her life.
Georgios Adamakos –
I got this book through Amazon’s first reads without knowing the author. I selected the book because it was a memoir. The book is addictive, very well written and very interesting. It definitely worth your time.
Barb B –
This book is do well written I had a hard time putting it down. Farah Naz Rishi is an excellent writer. She really uses her words effectively. You get to know, really know, the people in this memoir. The story is one of love, strength, agony, and joy. A very good book that I highly recommend.
Chan McDermott –
This young author has experienced so much already. Her memoir is beautifully written and insightful. It is also deeply personal and honest.
D. Ansell –
Learnt things
Random Consumer –
Kept waiting for the book to lighten up, didn’t happen. I wish there was mention of suicide, among a variety of other triggering issues, somewhere on the product page.
Stephanie –
People’s passivity when abused, manipulated, etc., has always dumfounded me. Certain cultures seem to encourage it by way of controlling their young and even adult children’s lives. Maybe this works for them in some way I can never understand, but the grief and anxiety it produces seems to counter any good.
Sexual intercourse is healthy, and the lack of it or seeming lack of desire for it is unreal and unbelievable.
I enjoyed learning more about the teachings of Islam, which are strikingly similar to Christianity. Regardless of race, culture or religion, people are the same, good and awful and everything in between.
Book Lover Too –
Life can be sooo hard. What a great honest picture of life with all its twists and turns. Easy to read but difficult heart wrenching events. I felt I became part of the family and ached for Farah to have peace. I appreciated the push and pull of her culture colliding with her own wishes and hopes as I’ve experienced this in my own life. A great life story about family and love.
Jennifer Dorval –
What a great read, it is a memoir, very interesting where I had a hard time putting the book down. All about family, love, religion, careers and life’s many challenges. All I could say was WOW.