Filling a gap in the field of research on English-language Pakistani narratives, Nation, City, Household is the first monographic study of contemporary Pakistani women’s writing. It sees fiction written by Pakistani female authors as a form of discursive agency that challenges both local patriarchal structures and Western representations that often portray Muslim women as voiceless and powerless. Adopting a spatial and affective perspective, it analyses a corpus of novels with strong female protagonists and asks how they depict articulations of women’s relationship to the everyday experiences of nation, city and household. The study highlights how the agentivity of the characters conveys social criticism of intersectional dynamics of power and presents positive female models to both Pakistani and international audiences.