Austenite or not, readers will be swept away. In the meantime, Hana pours her thoughts and dreams into a podcast, where she forms a lively relationship with one of her listeners. If she can just outshine her fellow intern at the city radio station, she may have a chance at landing a job. Jalaluddin makes their rekindling romance positively swoonworthy, and interfering family members and rich cultural detail add to this romance’s power. Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. About Books Other Projects Other Writing News Praise Press Kit Contact BOOKS. As Nada navigates the convention, she and Baz try to conceal their romantic history from their loved ones while grappling with their unresolved emotions and simmering sexual tension. Uzma Jalaluddin is the author of AYESHA AT LAST, a revamped Pride and Prejudice set in a close-knit Toronto Muslim community.

Upon arriving, however, Nada’s shocked to learn that Zayn’s brother is Baz Haq, whom she’s known since grade school and with whom she had an intense on-and-off relationship in college. There, Nada will finally meet Haleema’s fiancé, Zayn, and grudgingly participate in a speed-dating event. To lift her spirits, Nada’s best friend, Haleema, takes her to Deen&Dunya, an annual Muslim convention (“like Comic-Con, except with hijabs”), for the weekend.

As she approaches her 30th birthday, Nada is grappling both with this professional disappointment and with mounting parental pressure to find a spouse. Actor and producer Mindy Kaling and Amazon are adapting the Toronto novel Hana Khan Carries On by Star columnist Uzma Jalaluddin into a new film. Nada Syed works hard to launch the “Ask Apa” app, designed to offer sisterly advice to Toronto’s Muslim community, but a dishonest business partner undermines her efforts, forcing her to return to an engineering job she hates. Uzma Jalaluddin is a teacher and also writes a funny parenting column named Samosas and Maple Syrup for the Toronto Star, Canadas largest daily newspaper.

Jalaluddin’s delightful latest (after Hana Khan Carries On) puts a rom-com spin on Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

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