He keeps their relationship a secret from his parents for years because he worries about their acceptance; Nur is Pakastani and Yasmina is Sudanese. His mother reaches for the remote, muting the TV so that the fireworks continue but no sound comes from the bright lights. It contained lots of pages of very little happening, just general chit chat whilst eating a meal for example and I found myself losing interest far too often. Nur, a Pakistani Muslim falls in love with Yasmina, a Sudanese Muslim and the story flicks between the present and over the past couple of years from when they first met.

Aside from all of that, the book was an easy read, but I would not recommend the book for children or young adults because of both the profanity and the sexually descriptive language.I can see that this book will be popular with some readers but it just didn't do it for me this time.

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On the surface their relationship is a happy one but there is a persistent uncomfortable undercurrent, Nur has been keeping Yasmina a secret from his family the whole time. First, I want to say that I appreciate Kasim Ali's commentary/nuance that he decides to tackle in this book (a debut at that). Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. CW: anti-Blackness and colorism, instances of emotional and physical parental abuse, brief descriptions of the MC cutting in the past, and an explicitly described homophobic incident. A well written novel that gave an inside of a young British Pakistani man who went away for University and met a woman of his dreams, a woman of colour.