How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures by Huma Qureshi

If you loved Zeba Talkhani’s memoir My Past is a Foreign Country, you are going to LOVE well-known British Asian journalist Huma Qureshi’s memoir How We Met, which comes out in January 2021! Thanks to the publishers Elliot and Thompson for the proof.

I devoured Huma’s memoir in one day.

How We Met is NOT your conventional Muslim Asian woman meets non-Muslim white boy. There is no young Muslim Asian woman here being rescued by a white man. There is no oppressive family. It’s the tale of Huma’s journey to finding her husband, how she convinced her family to marry him, and a heartwarming memoir of growing up in the Asian community in the UK, being a woman who wants more for her life but also having parents who were supportive and who made her happiness, education and career a priority.

Huma delves into the make-up of Asian society in the UK, and the pressures that she faced as a young woman to get married to a “suitable boy,” something that many women of colour including myself can resonate with. It’s such an important tale for other women to read, to understand you can come to a point where having yourself is enough - and not to feel like you are only worthy as a woman when you have a wedding ring on your finger.

Huma’s anecdotes about her children are heartwarming, her relationship with her brilliant father made me cry and I just loved her husband so much from reading this book.

5-stars