Trigger/Content Warnings: This book features colourism, homophobia, homophobic violence, discussion of forced marriage, imprisonment, drugging, a hunger strike, excorcism, a child bride, paedophilia, incest, rape, child abuse, domestic abuse, and murder of a gay person. I won this proof in a giveaway on Twitter hosted by the author. Rukhsana realizes she must find the courage to fight for her love, but can she do so without losing everyone and everything in her life? From Goodreads Only through reading her grandmother’s old diary is Rukhsana able to gain some much needed perspective. They immediately whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh, where she is thrown headfirst into a world of arranged marriages and tradition. Her parents are devastated being gay may as well be a death sentence in the Bengali community. Luckily, only a few more months stand between her carefully monitored life in Seattle and her new life at Caltech, where she can pursue her dream of becoming an engineer.īut when her parents catch her kissing her girlfriend Ariana, all of Rukhsana’s plans fall apart.

She rolls her eyes instead of screaming when they blatantly favor her brother and she dresses conservatively at home, saving her crop tops and makeup for parties her parents don’t know about. Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that harder and harder to do. The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan Published: 29th January 2019 | Publisher: Scholastic US | Source: Won from author

I was sent this proof as a giveaway prize by the author for the purposes of providing an honest review.

The love and lies of rukhsana