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"This Is Where the Serpent Lives" is the debut novel by Pakistani-American author Daniyal Mueenuddin.
The sprawling, multi-generational epic is set in modern Pakistan and travels to the U.S., including Dartmouth College. It explores themes of class, power, and family through the intertwined lives of a wealthy family and their servants.
From the 1950s to the present, the characters navigate ambition, loyalty, and corruption in a feudal society still gripped by caste and social hierarchy.
In our Book Biz segment, we look at the forces shaping what gets written, published and read.
Journalist and writer Vauhini Vara discusses artificial intelligence, and specifically how it’s affecting writing, who it is helping and who might it be hurting.
Vara's book, "Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age," is a critical study exploring how technology shapes identity, communication, and selfhood.
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