SYNOPSIS
Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart.
Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the Hijra, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina, and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation, making her miserable.
Then a marvel occurs: Adam and Zayneb get the chance to spend Thanksgiving week on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia. Adam is thrilled; it’s the reboot he needs and an opportunity to pray for a hijra in real life: to migrate to Zayneb in Chicago. Zayneb balks at the trip at first, having envisioned another kind of vacation, but then decides a spiritual reset is calling her name too. And they can’t wait to see each other—surely, this is just what they both need.
But the trip is nothing like what they expect, from the appearance of Adam’s former love interest in their traveling group to the anxiety gripping Zayneb when she’s supposed to be “spiritual.” As one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder: was their meeting just an oddity after all? Or can their love transcend everything else like the greatest marvels of the world?
REVIEW
Love from Mecca to Medina is one of the best Muslim contemporary books I’ve ever read, and also my first fictional book completely based on Muslim characters.
Adam and Zayneb, two lovers are the two MCs who are living apart from each other. During Thanksgiving, they get a chance to meet each other, but things don’t go as planned, I mean not in a bad way but something very astonishing.
This book gives a wholesome experience, it made me laugh, cry and anxious at the same time.
Pick this book if you like:
️Halal love story
️Miscommunication trope ( in a way that made sense)
️Cat lover and with Cat’s POV
️Chronic illness representation
️Real relationship struggles
I enjoyed every bit of this book. It was so beautiful and heartwarming to read about Umrah and see the sacred cities from Adam's and Zayneb's eyes, I actually felt like I was a part of their journey. Go read this book and experience their journey.
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