These impossible things : [a novel] / Salma El-Wardany.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 387 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781538709306
- 1538709309
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Northport Library | Fiction | EL-WARDA SALMA | Available | 33111009442191 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Three best friends navigate love, sex, faith--and the one night that changes it all--in this novel that reveals " searing and poignant truths about the female experience" (Ashley Audrain, NYT bestselling author of The Push )
It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their family and community, these three best friends have had to navigate love, sex, faith, and womanhood alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women. But they've always done it together.
Malak wants the dream: for her partner, community, and faith to coexist happily, and she'll even break her own heart to get it. Kees is in love with Harry, a white Catholic man who her parents can never know about. Jenna is always the life of the party, even though she's plagued by an unshakable loneliness. But when their college years come to a
close, one night changes everything.
As their lives take different paths, in the wake of heartbreaks, marriages, new careers and new beginnings, Malak, Kees, and Jenna need each other more than ever. Can they forgive and find a way back to each other in time?
These Impossible Things is a moving paean to youth and female friendship--and to all the joy and messiness love holds.
Subtitle from cover.
First published by Trapeze, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., in the UK.
"It's always been Malak, Kees, and Jenna against the world. Since childhood, under the watchful eyes of their parents, aunties and uncles, they've learned to live their own lives alongside the expectations of being good Muslim women...With growing older and the stakes of love and life growing higher, the delicate balancing act between rebellion and religion is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate. As their lives begin to take different paths, Malak, Kees, and Jenna--now on the precipice of true adulthood--must find a way back to each other as they reconcile faith, family, and tradition with their own needs and desires"-- Provided by publisher.