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