Binding: Paperback
Description: " Absorbing compelling and beautifully written. Its ending brought me close to tears." Beth O Leary bestselling author of The Flatshare The Big Sick meets Nick Hornby in Kasim Ali's debut novel about a young man who has hidden a romance from his parents unable to choose between familial obligation and the future he truly wants. If love really is a choice how do you decide where your loyalties lie? It's the countdown to the New Year and Nur is steeling himself to tell his parents that he's seeing someone. A young British Pakistani man Nur has spent years omitting details about his personal life to maintain his image as the golden child. And it's come at a cost. Once Nur was a restless college student struggling to fit in. At a party he meets Yasmina a beautiful and self - possessed aspiring journalist. They start a conversation first awkward then absorbing. And as their relationship develops so too does Nur's self - destruction. He falls deeper into traps of his own making attempting to please both Yasmina and his family until he must finally reveal the truth: Yasmina is Black and he loves her. Deftly transporting readers between that first night and the years beyond Kasim Ali's Good Intentions exposes with unblinking authenticity the complexities of immigrant families and racial prejudice. It is a crackling wryly clever depiction of standing on the precipice of adulthood piecing together who it is you re meant to be.
Title: Good Intentions A Novel
Author(s): Ali Kasim
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250871121
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/14/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction