This Is Where the Serpent Lives E. Lockhart Alida is resigned to an

Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket

to become both a haunting elegy to a monstrous creature of the ‘Godless deep’ and an exploration of the vast

are hand crafted with decorated edges overflowing with petals

and waiting for her in her bedroom

Because someone is determined to ensure her story ends with a funeral

This Is Where the Serpent Lives E. Lockhart Alida is resigned to anA stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Moving from Pakistans sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This Is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social