From the world-renowned singer-songwriter a debut novel about a fatherless boy growing up in a family of outspoken women in contemporary Pakistan The Wish Maker is a brilliant tale about sacrifice betrayal and indestructible friendship.. Zaki Shirazi and his female cousin Samar Api were raised to consider themselves “part of the same litter.” In a household run by Zaki's crusading political journalist mother and iron-willed grandmother it was impossible to imagine a future that could hold anythi