The Centre is an unsettling book by Pakistani author, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi. Anisa is a translator living in London after growing up in Karachi. Doing just fine for herself, Anisa develops some jealousy when she begins dating a white man who knows more languages that she can count. When he confides in her that he learned several of these languages at "The Centre," Anisa demands the information so that she can go to do the same. 

As Anisa undertakes the very secretive journey of an extended stay at The Centre, she begins to unravel a mystery. This book uses a very secretive process to comment on classism, appropriation, and how we identify. Very literary in style, this is not your typical mystery and certainly not a thriller, but it does contain some elements of those genres and of horror. 

I flew through this and loved the writing style, but I found the ending

flat and  unsatisfying. I typically love an open ending, but this one just didn't hit the mark.