Hana Khan Carries On

Written By Linda Malek

Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
Reviewed by Omma
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Thank you @atlanticbooks for this copy!💛

If you’re a sucker for a good romcom, this will not disappoint!
Uzma writes the kind of love stories I always wanted to read when I was growing up. Stories about Muslim relationships that aren’t about rebellion or compromising their faith and values.
It was so refreshing to read about Muslim characters who are so ordinary and normal! Shows how deprived the literary scene has been for years.

Hana, a wonderfully confident woman with a loving, supportive and practising Muslim family as she tries to pave a way into broadcasting in Toronto. All while trying to help save her failing family restaurant when another Halal Restaurant opens up run by Aydin Shah, a young businesses minded entrepreneur trying to get his foot in the door.
The frisson and spark between the two competitions/frenemies is undeniable as the drama unfolds and tensions of all kinds builds.☺️

Linda Malek

I've always had the urge to set up a forum and voice my thoughts after each read, but never had the confidence to do so alone. 18 months ago, I got my fellow book-loving friends involved and formed The Candid Book Club! Aside from having an exponentially growing to-read pile and deteriorating shortsightedness, we've been lucky to have been invited to publisher events and have attended several talks with our favourite authors (Thank you and long may they continue!) To take a break from the pressures of PhD Chemistry, Jess and I exchanged books all the time and in my youth, I was that kid with the first editions of Harry Potter having already read Gulliver’s travels and some Charles Dickens. At work, my desk is a library and luckily for me I sit next to another bookworm Jack who entertains all the photo-taking. I'm suffering from a chronic case of wanderlust (age-related crisis) so books which are set as far away from home as possible tend to float my boat: Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Asia...you name it. But if it's got anything to do with Egypt then I'm all over it. So you get the drift...I read all the time, everywhere (on the tube mostly), everyday, a book a week, and very quickly I'm onto the next! And then sometimes there is a book that stops me in my tracks, makes me want to swallow the pages whole, and have it next to me at all times, with some sentences staying with me forever: Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts, anything by Khaled Hosseini, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo (absolute gem of a woman), A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shuklaand and anything by Naguib Mahfouz.

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