A novel in two acts - told eighteen years apart - gives voice to
both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mira) after an unplanned teen
pregnancy led Ayesha to place Mira up for adoption. Coming to the
US to study, Ayesha is swept up in a whirlwind romance with Suresh
- an Indian boy who reminds her of home. Mere months away from
starting university, she falls pregnant and finds herself alone.
She makes the difficult decision to hide her pregnancy and put her
daughter up for adoption, before returning to India. Years later,
seventeen-year-old Mira Fuller-Jensen has had a comfortable
childhood but has never felt quite like she fit in their majority
white community. All she knows is that her mums adopted her when
she was born and that her biological mother was a student who went
back to India. When she comes across letters addressed to her from
her birth mother, she sees a way to finally capture that feeling of
belonging. Her mother writes that if Mira can forgive her for
having to give her up, she should find a way to travel to India for
her eighteenth birthday and meet her. Mira knows she'll always
regret it if she doesn't go. But is she actually ready for what she
will learn? Perfect for fans of Sabina Khan's other books Zara
Hossain is Here and The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali Deals with
relatable teen issues and portrays the intersection of teen
pregnancy with Muslim and Indian culture Compelling dual
perspectives - Ayesha is brave and loving, Mira is curious but lost
and both make engaging narrators
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