Meet Me In Mumbai

A novel in two acts - told eighteen years apart - gives
voice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mira) after an unplanned
teen pregnancy led Ayesha to place Mira up for adoption.

Coming to the US to study, Ayesha is swept up in a
whirlwind romance with Suresh – an Indian boy who reminds her
of home. Mere months away from starting university, she falls
pregnant and finds herself alone. She makes the difficult decision
to hide her pregnancy and put her daughter up for adoption, before
returning to India.

Years later, seventeen-year-old Mira
Fuller-Jensen has had a comfortable childhood but has never felt
quite like she fit in their majority white community. All she
knows is that her mums adopted her when she was born and that her
biological mother was a student who went back to India. When she
comes across letters addressed to her from her birth mother, she
sees a way to finally capture that feeling of belonging.

Her
mother writes that if Mira can forgive her for having to give
her up, she should find a way to travel to India for her eighteenth
birthday and meet her. Mira knows she'll always regret it if
she doesn't go. But is she actually ready for what she will learn?

• Perfect for fans of Sabina Khan's other books Zara
  Hossain is Here and The Love and Lies of
  Rukhsana Ali
• Deals with relatable teen issues and portrays
  the intersection of teen pregnancy with Muslim and Indian
  culture
• Compelling dual perspectives – Ayesha is
  brave and loving, Mira is curious but lost and both make engaging
  narrators