Daniyal Mueenuddin - This Is Where the Serpent Lives

Thu, 22 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm UTC-06:00

15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240 | Iowa City

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Daniyal Mueenuddin - This Is Where the Serpent Lives
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Daniyal Mueenuddin will read from his new novel, This Is Where the Serpent Lives. Described as a "stunning new work," This Is Where the Serpent Lives takes place in contemporary feudal Pakistan, "following the destinies of a dozen unforgettable characters whose lives are linked through violence and tragedy, triumph, and love." Publishers Weekly praises it as "a profound and revelatory portrait of Pakistan’s class divisions," while Booklist says: "Intricately layered. . . . Mueenuddin writes cinematically, examining and unraveling relationships with meticulous detail and stinging insights, spotlighting the grey areas between the impossible absolutes of right and wrong."
Daniyal Mueenuddin was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan, and Elroy, Wisconsin. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie. His collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. For a number of years he practiced law in New York. He now divides his time between Oslo, Norway, and his farm in Pakistan’s South Punjab.
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