Goodreads asked Yasmeen Musa:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Yasmeen Musa Five years ago a wonderful and terrible thing happened to me. I became infatuated with someone who was completely unacceptable in the eyes of my Arab-Muslim upbringing. This forced me to grapple with really hard questions like:
- Where does my loyalty lie, to my happiness or that of my parents?
- Am I a New Zealander of Arab?
- What do I want my life to look like?

This book was the product of grappling with these big, hard questions. Questions I think lots of adult children have to grapple with as we learn to be ourselves outside of our parents.

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