WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY

The Ibrahim family is facing a crucial moment: their patriarch just lost his fortune as the result of a ponzi scheme, and the family is picking up the pieces.

At the family's core is Asma: successful doctor and the long-suffering middle daughter, who stepped into the family center after the death of her beloved mother years ago. Despite what the prying aunties think, Asma is living the life she has always wanted, fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a doctor.or so she thinks. In walks Farooq WaheedAsma's college boyfriend whose proposal was cruelly rejected by her aunt and father. Now, eight years later, Farooq has made his fortune in Silicon Valley and is widely considered one of the most eligible bachelors in California. As he enters Asma's social orbit, she finds herself navigating a tricky landscapeher pushy sisters, gossiping aunties, and her father's expectationson her path to reconciling the past and winning Farooq back in the present. If there is still time. Nura Maznavi is a writer, attorney, and the editor of the groundbreaking anthologies, Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women (Soft Skull, 2012) and Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy (Beacon Press, 2014). She is a recipient of a City of Chicago Individual Artists Program grant, a semi-finalist for the Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship, and a Chicago Artists Monthly Featured Artist. Nura is an alumna of VONA/Voices of Our Nation writers' workshop. She lives in Southern California with her family.