Ayesha at Last (Uzma Jalaluddin, 2018)
A retelling set among Muslim families in Toronto, where the judgmental one is engaged to her cousin.
Pride and prejudice cut both ways. Put them in a close community where everyone knows everyone’s business.
You want a warm modern romance in which faith and family are part of the story.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the misjudgment on both sides and the slow correction of it.
Changes: the setting to a Muslim community in suburban Toronto, and the roles: Ayesha is a teacher and poet; Khalid is the judgmental man she is drawn to, who is then announced as engaged to her cousin.
Set among Muslim families in suburban Toronto.
Whose story is it?
Ayesha’s and Khalid’s, both of them proud and both of them wrong.
How much time does it ask?
368 pages in paperback.
Berkley, 4 June 2019, 368 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition