Uzma Jalaluddin

Teaching was not what she’d expected and nothing like her training, where she’d had the comforting guidance of a mentor teacher.

When an unmarried man and woman are alone together, a third person is present: Satan,

should have assumed as much from your clothing. Tell me, Khalid: Where are you from?”

“Toronto,”

Chai was so much more than a caffeine kick for her. She knew how every member of her family liked to drink their tea, how much sugar or honey to put in each cup. Chai was love, distilled and warming.

Saleha has not let go of her anger, and it has made her so unhappy. I don’t want to see that happen to you as well.”

My library took over the entire first floor of our house. Nani was jealous of my collection. She said I loved it more than her. She was wrong, of course. I brought her when we moved, not my books.”

chair. “People are intimidated by a woman in power, Clara. They think it goes against the natural order of things. But the world is changing, and it’s important that we embrace the transformation. You grew up in Newfoundland.”

Clara blinked, head spinning at Sheila’s abrupt topic change. So her new boss hadn’t been simply ignoring her outside in the hallway

Ayesha started laughing.

Part of both worlds, yet part of neither

wiry and stubbly