UZ Book Sampler: Excerpts by Umm Zakiyyah - FICTION EDITION - UZ Book Sampler

Read hundreds of pages from the internationally acclaimed novels by Umm Zakiyyah, including two installments of the If I Should Speak trilogy and the viral short-story series turned short film and novel, His Other Wife, and more. In If I Should Speak, the author promises to revolutionize storytelling in this powerful story about three college students, one Christian and the others Muslim, who find themselves unlikely roommates at a small, private American university. "[If I Should Speak] is a refreshing exploration of the unavoidable interaction between Muslims and Christians.
The novel belongs to...a genre worthy of scholarly study."-Professor K. Bryant, Howard University *** His Other Wife is a story about love and betrayal, faith and personal crisis, and withstanding deep emotional wounds. Jacob is a successful businessman and college professor, and his wife Deanna is a renowned marriage counselor and author. Together they are their Muslim community's power couple. Aliyah is Deanna's recently divorced best friend who has just accepted a position at the college where Jacob works-and who is the unwilling recipient of Deanna's constant unsolicited relationship advice, particularly that Aliyah needs to learn how to hold a marriage together and keep a man from ever thinking about marrying another woman.
But their friendship takes a difficult turn when Aliyah receives a phone call from her uncle saying that Jacob is interested in marrying her as a second wife-without Deanna's knowledge.