Meet Me in Mumbai

A novel in two acts - told eighteen years apart - givesvoice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mira) after an unplannedteen pregnancy led Ayesha to place Mira up for adoption.Coming to the US to study, Ayesha is swept up in a whirlwind romancewith Suresh - an Indian boy who reminds her of home.Mere months away from starting university, she falls pregnant andfinds herself alone. She makes the difficult decision to hide herpregnancy and put her daughter up for adoption, before returningto India.Years later, seventeen-year-old Mira Fuller-Jensen has had a comfortablechildhood but has never felt quite like she fit in theirmajority white community. All she knows is that her mums adoptedher when she was born and that her biological mother was a studentwho went back to India. When she comes across letters addressedto her from her birth mother, she sees a way to finally capturethat feeling of belonging.Her mother writes that if Mira can forgive her for having to giveher up, she should find a way to travel to India for her eighteenthbirthday and meet her. Mira knows she'll always regret itif she doesn't go. But is she actually ready for what she will learn? Perfect for fans of Sabina Khan's other books Zara Hossainis Here and The Love and Lies of Rukhsana AliDeals with relatable teen issues and portrays the intersectionof teen pregnancy with Muslim and Indian cultureCompelling dual perspectives - Ayesha is brave and loving,Mira is curious but lost and both make engaging narrators