Best Of Friends by Kamila Shamsie

In late-1980s Karachi, two teenage girls forge a fierce bond amid political upheaval, but a single unsettling night leaves a fracture that shadows them into adulthood. Decades later in London—one leading a civil liberties organization, the other thriving in tech and venture capital—a figure from their past resurfaces, forcing them to confront buried truths. As ambition, privilege, and ideals collide, their friendship becomes a testing ground for loyalty, power, and the difficult compromises demanded by public life and migration.

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