| "[Mueennuddin's] crisp, vivid voice glides effortlessly into his various characters' heads....Dark stuff, but full of beauty." - Karen Valby 01/30/2009 "Daniyal Mueenuddin, a half-American, half-Pakistani writer, has crafted a chronicle of poverty as detailed and revealing as any by Steinbeck, with the same drive to humanize his subjects." 02/01/2009 "...Mueenuddin's talent lets us perceive not just [Pakistan's] machinations but also its beauty--the mango orchards, a charpoy laid out in the shade of a mammoth banyan tree, the smoke of a hookah on a spring afternoon..." - Dalia Sofer 02/08/2009 "...Mr. Mueenuddin unveils a nuanced world where social status and expectations are understood without being stated, and where poverty and the desire to advance frame each critical choice." - Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg 02/02/2009 "The eight short stories of Daniyal Mueenuddin's enchanting debut are dreamlike, illuminating contemporary Pakistan's societal contradictions in prose as clear and serene as the contradictions themselves are subtle and tumultuous." - Robert Braile 03/04/2009 "[Mueenuddin's] prose, never flashy, neither sentimentalizes the poor nor demonizes the rich, but noses out the humanity of each. It is probably a mistake to lavish too much praise on a first book, but given the power and beauty and deeply affecting quality of IN OTHER ROOMS, OTHER WONDERS, I can't stop myself from wondering if Pakistan has found its Chekhov." - Chauncey Mabe 03/17/2009 | 
