{"id":1842,"date":"2022-12-22T19:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T19:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2023-04-02T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:54:38","slug":"tell-her-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Tell Her Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith most first times, you don\u2019t really know it\u2019s the beginning of something,\u201d explains Indian surgeon Dr. Kaiser Shah in a letter to his estranged daughter as he prepares for her to visit. And so it is with the practice that engulfed and destroyed Dr. K\u2019s professional life in an unnamed oil-rich country. The task in question\u2014you must remember, he says, it wasn\u2019t his whole job!\u2014is never mentioned directly, and certainly not described, with the doctor convincing himself ever harder that his secrecy is motivated by benevolence toward his lessors. The punishment for stealing is hand amputation, and before he began \u201chelping out Corrections from time to time,\u201d the procedure was much worse. The story of his involvement in this horror, and how it slowly eats his family life, friendships, and any sense of an inner life, is absorbing; adding a striking air is the doctor\u2019s struggle toward self-acceptance in his letters to his daughter. Extremes underlie the violence here: Dr. K\u2019s quiet sycophancy toward his superiors compared to his friend\/rival\u2019s gluttony; his love for his daughter compared to her disgust at his work; his initial bootlicking acceptance of the amputation work compared to his feelings about it after a shocking pivot.<strong> Those who enjoy an introspective read are the audience for this one, and they will want to go back to Waheed\u2019s award-winning debut, <em>The Collaborator<\/em><\/strong>, for more from this author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith most first times, you don\u2019t really know it\u2019s the beginning of something,\u201d explains Indian surgeon Dr. Kaiser Shah in a letter to his estranged daughter as he prepares for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,123,52,164,122],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-family-life","tag-india","tag-psychological","tag-star","tag-world-literature"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Tell-Her-Everything-1-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Tell-Her-Everything-1-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}