Stay, Daughter - Yasmin Azad - Books - Swift Press - 9781800751392 - April 6, 2023
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Stay, Daughter

Yasmin Azad

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Stay, Daughter

We did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less...

Suffused with love, humour and compassion, Stay, Daughter gives an intimate glimpse into a traditional Muslim community that has to balance the rules of Islamic orthodoxy with the freedoms and innovations of the Westernized modern world. The memoir follows the history of a community in Sri Lanka that, in the late 19th century, breaks with the traditions of the time to give girls a secular education and permission to go out of their homes. Before long, such independence and exposure to foreign ideas brings heartbreak to many families as their daughters move away from the customs that had once been the norm.

Although the book tells the story of a single family, it draws on a situation that almost all Muslims struggle with as they negotiate a changing world where women are no longer who they used to be.


256 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released April 6, 2023
ISBN13 9781800751392
Publishers Swift Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 224 × 144 × 26 mm   ·   338 g