Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

Much Ado About Nada

Uzma Jalaluddin

Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · June 13, 2023

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Who it’s for
A second-chance romance brings old history, stalled ambitions, and fresh complications into the same room.
Themes
Family pressure to marry, Unrealized dreams and new beginnings
Genres
Contemporary Romance, Multicultural & Interracial Romance, Romantic Comedy

About this book

A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she’s still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother’s unsubtle pleas to get married already.

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While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it’s a far cry from realizing her start-up dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper instead of a bang because of a double-crossing business partner. Nothing in her life has turned out the way it was supposed to, and Nada feels like a failure. Something needs to change, but the past is holding on too tightly to let her move forward. Nada’s best friend Haleema is determined to pry her from her shell…and what better place than at the giant annual Muslim conference held downtown, where Nada can finally meet Haleema’s fiancé, Zayn. And did Haleema mention Zayn’s brother Baz will be there? What Haleema doesn’t know is that Nada and Baz have a past—some of it good, some of it bad and all of it secret. At the conference, that past all comes hurtling at Nada, bringing new complications and a moment of reckoning. Can Nada truly say goodbye to once was or should she hold tight to her dreams and find their new beginnings?

Past Meets Possibility

A second-chance romance brings old history, stalled ambitions, and fresh complications into the same room.

Come here for

  • A Jane Austen–inspired romance with a contemporary Muslim community setting
  • The tension between old feelings and hard-won dreams

Expect

  • A personal reckoning amid family expectations and friendship
  • Romantic comedy with a reflective streak

Where it sits

Contemporary Romance67%
Multicultural & Interracial Romance45%
Romantic Comedy44%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Multicultural & Interracial Romance
  • Women's Fiction
  • Cultural Heritage Fiction
Authors
Uzma Jalaluddin
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
June 13, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Family pressure to marry · Unrealized dreams and new beginnings
Reading lane
Multicultural & Interracial Romance