![]() ![]() Khalid is as smart and intelligent as he is orthodox and conservative, and her cousin is everything would-be mother-in-laws search for: rich, beautiful, young, and naïve. She lives in suburban Toronto with her inter-generational family that migrated from India years ago, and gets unwittingly entangled between the lives of reserved bachelor Khalid and her younger naïve cousin Hafsa. The story traces the life of Ayesha Shamsi, who wants to be a poet but is settling for a teaching job to pay off her family debts. It starts off with a bang-a snobbish man judging a struggling hijabi woman getting into her car. Borrowing this book was probably the best thing I did last year.Īyesha at Last is a story set in suburban Toronto, based on Muslim families living there. I came across this book by chance while browsing Muslim authors on the Edmonton Public Library website. ![]() I read this book last year when the pandemic hit, and I was looking for diverse Muslim representation in Canadian literature. Content Warning: human trafficking threats, miscarriage. ![]()
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