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Ayesha at last : a novel / Uzma Jalaluddin.

by Jalaluddin, Uzma.

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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.

Women authors -- Fiction.

Muslim women -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.

Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction

9781432870812 (hc.)

Large print edition, unabridged.

537 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.

Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is conservative and judgmental. She is irritatingly attracted to someone who looks down on her choices and dresses like he belongs in the seventh century. When a surprise engagement between Khalid and Hafsa is announced, Ayesha is torn between how she feels about the straightforward Khalid and his family; and the truth she realizes about herself. But Khalid is also wrestling with what he believes and what he wants. And he just can't get this beautiful, outspoken woman out of his mind.

Canadian fiction.

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