It tells the story of Sameera Parvin, a young Pakistani woman who works as a radio jockey in an unnamed Middle Eastern country which is on the verge of revolution.

[3] Writer Benyamin has been living in Bahrain for 20 years and his novel Goat Days (2008) tells the story of an abused Indian migrant worker in Saudi Arabia.

She wrote: "But what Benyamin pulls off again is Sameera’s voice: the almost spoken-word simplicity with which this landscape is rendered makes it hard not to listen.

"[6] Faizal Khan of The Financial Express wrote: "Benyamin’s craft of conversation-driven storytelling succeeds in revealing the tensions in a society starting to unravel.

"[7] Supriya Nair of Mint called, "The novel is told in first person, but it isn’t really concerned with interiority: it’s the great knock-about events of the story, its gasping pace of riots, deaths, family feuds and mourning, that imbalances our senses.