How We Met

A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures

How We Met
Huma Qureshi
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 240pg
3 Feb 2022 UK
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9781783966110
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You can' t choose who you fall in love with, they say. If only it were that simple. Growing up in Walsall in the 1990s, Huma straddled two worlds - school and teenage crushes in one; the expectations and unwritten rules of her family' s south Asian social circle in the other. Reconciling the two was sometimes a tightrope act, but she managed it. Until it came to marriage. Caught between her family' s concern to see her safely settled down with someone suitable, her own appetite for adventure and a hopeless devotion to romance honed from Georgette Heyer, she seeks temporary refuge in Paris and imagines a future full of possibility. And then her father has a stroke and everything changes. As Huma learns to focus on herself she realises that searching for a suitor has been masking everything that was wrong in her life: grief for her father, the weight of expectation, uncertainty about who she really is. Marriage - arranged or otherwise - can' t be the all-consuming purpose of her life. And then she meets someone. Neither Pakistani nor Muslim nor brown, and therefore technically not suitable at all. When your worlds collide, how do you measure one love against another?
' I devoured this brilliant memoir! A beautiful coming of age story, with a focus on love and questioning where matrimony fits into her life. . . Huma' s voice is effortless, beautiful, incredibly refreshing and so relatable -- a really talented author. ' - Haleh Agar, author of Out of Touch "This beautiful, romantic memoir grabs you from the first page and won' t let you go. Told with heart, wit and quiet restraint, How We Met is the story of how we can transcend the expectations of others and arrange our own happiness in life and in love. " - Viv Groskop ' There are the books that touch you. Then there are the books that open out their arms and straight out hug you - How We Met is this second kind of book. Honest, joyful, at times heart-breaking, at times laugh out loud funny, but always generous in its telling. . . this is Huma Qureshi, heart and soul. ' - Ami Rao, author of David and Ameena ' A fearlessly honest memoir of courage, love and loss, and trying to find your place in the world. Quietly heartbreaking but life-affirming too. . ' - Kia Abdullah, author of Take It Back "Abeautiful, refreshing and honest memoir about family, love, inheritance andloss" - Nikesh Shukla, author of Brown Baby "HOW WE METencompasses the kind of love story you' d expect as well as several you mightnot: it' s about the love of a couple but also the love of a family. It' s abouta love of culture and faith but also a love of finding new paths and ofremaking. Huma Qureshi tells the story of her great loves with generosity andtenderness that will grab readers by the heart. " - Jean HannahEdelstein, author of This Really Isn' t About You "How We Metis a wonderful read - a memoir of grief, becoming and true love. Huma Qureshiis a writer with a sharp eye and a romantic heart. " - Katherine May,author of Wintering "How We Metis the book I, and countless women of similar heritage, have been waiting ourwhole lives for. I cried, and laughed out loud as I recognised myself in somuch of Huma Qureshi' s story. The book isabout Huma and how she met and married her husband Richard, but it' s more thanthat, it' s about trying to do ' the right thing' in a shifting world, where youare all at once at home, and also somehow alien. It' s about being the child ofimmigrants, it' s about dreams, about motherhood, and it is about familial love,in its many forms. It' s such a beautiful book of quiet confidence, and deservesto be read widely. Huma is a hugetalent, and a skillfull storyteller with an eye for an exquisite turn ofphrase. I' m sure this memoir will be a huge success. It certainly deserves tobe. " - Saima Mir,author of The Khan
Huma Qureshi is an award-winning writer and journalist, and contributor to The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood (2020). A former Guardian reporter, she has also written for The Times, Independent, Observer, Grazia, New Statesman, and The Huffington Post. She is a regular contributor to BBC2' s Pause for Thought and has appeared as a contributor on BBC Woman' s Hour, BBC London, BBC Breakfast and the BBC Asian Network. She is the winner of the 2020 Harper' s Bazaar Short Story Prize.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781783966110
Published: 3 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Elliott & Thompson
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 240

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