HUMA. QURESHI Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Huma Qureshi's gorgeous first novel: a tender and intimate story of two sisters caught up in the joys and pains of art and family

Set against the backdrop of a South Asian family in 1990s Walsall, this memoir explores the delicate balance between cultural expectations and personal desires. Huma navigates the pressures of marriage while grappling with grief and identity, ultimately seeking adventure and self-discovery in Paris. As she confronts her family's ideals, she finds love in an unexpected place, challenging the norms of her upbringing. This poignant narrative delves into themes of family, love, and the quest for individual happiness, offering a relatable coming-of-age journey.

A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dissonance between lovers. It exposes the silences in families and the parts of ourselves we rarely reveal. A daughter asks her mother to shut up, only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesn’t understand her; on holiday, lovers no longer understand each other away from home. The underlying themes of loneliness, secrets, family and displacement and also the desire to belong to someone, to some place; a yearning for love, intertwine these stories. The collection includes The Jam Maker, which has just been awarded the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize 2020.