She has lived in Germany, Bangladesh, Macao, Illinois and Texas before finally settling down in Vancouver, BC. Published by Scholastic.Sabina Khan is the acclaimed author of WHAT A DESI GIRL WANTS, MEET ME IN MUMBAI, ZARA HOSSAIN IS HERE & THE LOVE AND LIES OF RUKHSANA ALI. Which was why I was planning to throw on my oversized school hoodie to once again become the shapeless blob my parents preferred to think of me as.įrom The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabin Khan ©2019. I would never be allowed to go out wearing this.
It's not my fault you couldn't hear me over that screeching you call music." Aamir smiled as he sauntered into the room and plopped down on my bed. "Knock much?" I said, quickly pausing the music playing on my phone. Startled, I spun around to see my brother, Aamir, leaning lazily against my door frame. "Rukhsana, Mom is never going to let you out of the house wearing that." Of course, the whole "no boys" rule was a moot point in my case, but fortunately my parents didn't know about Ariana. According to Mom no one needed to know that I had boobs, much less a belly button, except for me, Allah, and my future husband. But what they didn't know couldn't hurt them, right? I quickly changed out of my NASA pajamas and into my favorite black crop top and dark blue vintage jeans, liking the way they accentuated my curves. These were my parents' three cardinal rules.
Through reading her grandmother's old diary, Rukhsana gains some much-needed perspective and realizes she must find the courage to fight for her love without losing the connection to her family as a consequence. Her parents are devastated and decide to whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh, where she is thrown headfirst into a world of arranged marriages and tradition. But when her parents catch her kissing her girlfriend Ariana, all of Rukhsana's plans fall apart. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life in Seattle and her new life at Caltech.
She rolls her eyes when they blatantly favour her brother and saves her crop tops and makeup for parties her parents don't know about. Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents' expectations, but lately she's finding that impossible to do.
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