Written in the Stars
By
Aisha Saeed
Read by
Aisha Saeed,
Soneela Nankani
Release:
12/03/2019
Runtime:
6h 52m
Unabridged
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Readers will be drawn into Naila’s trials and tribulations as she navigates the reality of her new life in Pakistan and explores what inner resources she needs to change her fate. . . . Sheds light on the difficult phenomenon of forced marriage, still prevalent in many cultures around the world and often shrouded in silence.
Kirkus Reviews
Winner of American Library Association's YALSA Quick Pick
In this “evocative” (School Library Journal) novel, a young Pakistani American teenager breaks her family’s one rule and is whisked away to the homeland to be forced into an arranged marriage.
“A wonderfully complex love story unlike any you’ve read before… . Both entertaining and important.”—Matt de la Peña, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Here
“Sheds light on the difficult phenomenon of forced marriage, still prevalent in many cultures around the world and often shrouded in silence.”—Kirkus Reviews
She has control of everything but her own heart.
Naila’s conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: She may choose what to study, how to wear her hair, and what to be when she grows up—but they will choose her husband. And until then, dating—or even friendship with a boy—is forbidden. When Naila breaks the rule by falling in love with Saif, her parents are livid.
Convinced she has forgotten who she truly is, they travel to Pakistan to visit relatives and explore their roots. But Naila’s vacation turns into a nightmare when she learns that plans have changed—her parents have found her a husband and they want her to marry him, right then and there. Despite her greatest efforts, Naila is aghast to find herself cut off from everything and everyone she once knew.
Her only hope of escape is Saif … if he can find her before it’s too late.
“A wonderfully complex love story unlike any you’ve read before… . Both entertaining and important.”—Matt de la Peña, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Here
“Sheds light on the difficult phenomenon of forced marriage, still prevalent in many cultures around the world and often shrouded in silence.”—Kirkus Reviews
She has control of everything but her own heart.
Naila’s conservative immigrant parents have always said the same thing: She may choose what to study, how to wear her hair, and what to be when she grows up—but they will choose her husband. And until then, dating—or even friendship with a boy—is forbidden. When Naila breaks the rule by falling in love with Saif, her parents are livid.
Convinced she has forgotten who she truly is, they travel to Pakistan to visit relatives and explore their roots. But Naila’s vacation turns into a nightmare when she learns that plans have changed—her parents have found her a husband and they want her to marry him, right then and there. Despite her greatest efforts, Naila is aghast to find herself cut off from everything and everyone she once knew.
Her only hope of escape is Saif … if he can find her before it’s too late.
Release:
2019-12-03
Runtime:
6h 52m
Format:
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780593171950
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
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