Lessons in Husbandry, by Shaida Kazie Ali
Price: R180.00
ISBN:9781415201398, Trade Paperback, Umuzi, due April 2012
Thirty-year-old doctor’s wife Malak is married to Taj, a serial philanderer who was once engaged to her missing sister Amal. Malak spends her time in a cupcake shop pondering the disappearance of her sister. She turns to food and a weekly writing class for comfort. But when she meets Darya, an artist, she falls instantly in love. No longer her sister’s understudy, and in a jaw-dropping moment, Malak decides to marry Darya to become a Muslim woman with two husbands.
The murky events surrounding Amal’s disappearance are revealed in due course, exposing a deep secret.
Sparking with Ali’s fresh and inventive way of seeing things, and her wry sense of humour, Lessons in Husbandry is a unique reflection on what it means to be married.
