{"product_id":"9780702319433","title":"Meet Me in Mumbai","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Khan, Sabina \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eInterest age: from c 14 years\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 September 2022 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 199 x 24 | 242g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel in two acts - told eighteen years apart - gives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evoice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mira) after an unplanned\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eteen pregnancy led Ayesha to place Mira up for adoption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing to the US to study, Ayesha is swept up in a whirlwind romance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith Suresh - an Indian boy who reminds her of home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMere months away from starting university, she falls pregnant and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efinds herself alone. She makes the difficult decision to hide her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epregnancy and put her daughter up for adoption, before returning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears later, seventeen-year-old Mira Fuller-Jensen has had a comfortable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echildhood but has never felt quite like she fit in their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emajority white community. All she knows is that her mums adopted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher when she was born and that her biological mother was a student\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho went back to India. When she comes across letters addressed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto her from her birth mother, she sees a way to finally capture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat feeling of belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother writes that if Mira can forgive her for having to give\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher up, she should find a way to travel to India for her eighteenth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebirthday and meet her. Mira knows she'll always regret it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eif she doesn't go. But is she actually ready for what she will learn?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of Sabina Khan's other books Zara Hossain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis Here and The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeals with relatable teen issues and portrays the intersection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof teen pregnancy with Muslim and Indian culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompelling dual perspectives - Ayesha is brave and loving,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMira is curious but lost and both make engaging narrators\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43924749484291,"sku":"9780702319433","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780702319433_ec8cfe9a-93e2-4a80-84a7-56111e7241c5.jpg?v=1731335725","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9780702319433","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}