In Meatless Days, Sara Suleri weaves her narrative with the threads of memory. darting through images, feelings, and conversations of the past. As opposed to a chronological straight-line story, Suleri’s narrative wander and bends, jumps and circles back around, much similar to the chaotic digressions and daydreams of a reminiscing mind. In the following passage, she openly allows the reader to glimpse the voice behind the narrative the woman behind the curtain. Read this extract taken from her novel ‘Meatless Days:
It makes mind and body boggle: Kinnaird College! for Women! on Jail Road! in Lahore! A place to imprint on unsuspecting faces looks of indelible surprise! The college was indeed on Jail Road, as was the jail, and the racecourse, and the lunatic asylum, too: daily we found it hard to believe ourselves, but it was true!