HOPE YOU ARE SATISFIED TANIA MALIK

Publication date: May 02, 2023

ISBN: 978-1-951213-69-5

Dimensions: 6x9

Pages: 228

Hardback: $27.00

North America & Audio Rights:

Unnamed Press

Other Rights: Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency

The Sheik is pissed. Along with his wives and children, the Sheik got put on the wrong plane, and ended up waiting hours on a hot desert tarmac for a crew that never came. As usual– it’s Riya’s fault.

Riya works for Discover Arabia, a rinky-dink tour guide company in the far-flung desert outpost of Dubai. It’s 1990, and the city’s iconic skyline, along with its global reputation, remain but a gleam in developers’ eyes. For twenty-five-year-old Riya, Dubai is a desert purgatory that sprawls between her family back home in India, and an as-yet-undefined future ahead of her. If she belongs to anything, it is to the city’s transient underclass of young people from South Asia, Africa, and Europe, who arrive with the ubiquitous goal of earning more than they could at home.

Will a favor from Dubai’s most notorious fixer get Riya back in everyone’s good graces? Or will the impending possibility of an invasion by Saddam Hussein make her problems (along with everyone else’s) a moot point? As war looms, and powerful men grow more desperate, Riya narrows in on a chance to reclaim her agency.

Author Tania Malik presents a lovably sarcastic cast of misfits who will undo the “guest worker” stereotype one tequila shot at a time, while around them, international arms dealers, American soldiers, CIA consultants, corrupt bosses, and wayward vacationers all compete for Discover Arabia’s attention, even as their world teeters on the cusp of an explosive global conflict.

Praise for Hope You Are Satisfied

“Hope You Are Satisfied embodies all the best elements of a literary thriller…Malik brings her cast of characters—a motley crew of international expats toiling away in the tourism industry in Dubai—skillfully to life, then introduces a smart mousetrap of a plot that keeps the pages turning at breakneck pace.”

—Suzanne Rindel, author of The Other Typist

Praise for Three Bargains

“Mesmerizing prose [and] heart-stopping action . . . both honest and astounding.” Publishers Weekly, Starred review

“Touching and deeply researched. . . . An impressive feat of storytelling.”

—Thomas Chatterton Williams, San Francisco Chronicle

“An impressive first novel.” —Georgia Rowe, San Jose Mercury News

“Madan’s is an adventure well worth joining.”

—Anne Morris, Dallas Morning News

“Three Bargains brought back the dimly remembered pleasure of being swept up in the fast, deep waters of a great tale. Richly textured and morally nuanced.”

—Debra Dean, author of The Mirrored World

Tania Malik is the author of the novel Three Bargains that received a Publishers Weekly Starred review and a Booklist Starred review. She was educated in boarding schools in the foothills of the Himalayas and has had a varied career in the travel and non-profit fields. She was raised in India, Africa, and the Middle East and currently lives in San Francisco’s Bay Area.