Zoya Patel's Once a Stranger

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Zoya is a writer and communications professional. She is the founder of feminist arts and literature journal Feminartsy. She has been the Chair of the Stella Prize judging panel in 2021. Her debut book No Country Woman was a collection of memoir essays. Today Zoya joins us with her first novel Once a Stranger.

Ayat’s mother is dying. It has been six years since the two have been together, a rift seemingly impossible to heal.

But now Ayat has received a call from her sister Laila; their mother doesn’t have long to live and somehow they must reconcile. To reunite as a family.

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