A Match Made In Heaven: British Muslim Women Write About Love and Desire
✍ Scribed by Claire Chambers
- Book ID
- 110664766
- Publisher
- HopeRoad
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781913109073
- ASIN
- B08HJQ8RV5
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Star-studded and beautifully written, this collection offers diverse stories about love and desire by South Asian-heritage British Muslim women authors, including Ayisha Malik (Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged) and Shelina Janmohamed (Love in a Headscarf). Although outsiders often expect Muslim women to be timid, conservative, or submissive, the reality is different. While some of these authors express a quiet piety and explore poignant situations, others use black humor and biting satire, or play with possibilities. Still others shade into the territory of a Muslim Fifty Shades of Grey, creating grey areas where the mainstream media sees only black and white. If grooming-gang scandals grab headlines, characters are more scandalized by suitors' sloppy personal grooming. Finding the right crimson lipstick for a date or the perfect power outfit for meeting a cheating ex-husband are commoner preoccupations than the news. Stylish but far from shallow, the stories also reflect on migration, racism, arranged marriage, gender differences, lesbian desire, bearding, and many other subjects.