In January 2023, I began listening to season two of journalist Josh Baker’s podcast, “I’m not a Monster.” In it, he investigates the case of Shamima Begum—the younger British girl who, at age 15, ran away from her residence in London with associates to affix ISIS in Syria, ending up at a refugee camp 4 years later after the autumn of the caliphate motion. The UK subsequently revoked her citizenship, forbidding her to return residence to her household. As a younger Muslim girl myself, drawn to progressive and feminist interpretations of Islam, I believed the scenario was tragic—each that Shamima and her associates hadn’t had the publicity to the constructive, compassionate, and peace-preaching religion that I had, and that the U.Ok. severely punished her for a mistake she made on the impressionable age of 15. I rapidly grew fascinated—no, obsessed—with the case. And whereas the podcast and accompanying BBC documentary are detailed, there was way more I wished to know. Shamima’s story stayed with me for months, and I questioned if anybody would make a fictionalized film about it.
It might not be a movie (not but anyway) however two years later, we’re seeing the discharge of Basically—a ebook by Nussaibah Younis, which follows the fictional plight of an educational who goes to Iraq to de-radicalize ladies who left their properties throughout Europe and the Center East to marry ISIS fighters. It’s not the intense, investigative exposé that I initially hoped for—as an alternative, Younis makes use of the totally sudden lens of comedy for her storytelling endeavor.
For me, this primary appeared like a questionable, even perhaps offensive style to discover younger ladies’s experiences with the horrors of ISIS and the destitution of a refugee camp. I ought to pause right here and, for the sake of transparency, be upfront about my biases. I establish as a training Muslim, and my writing is fueled by a want to jot down constructive representations of Muslims into the mainstream publishing world. Younis, by admission of her personal Instagram bio, identifies as a “non-practicing Muslim” and isn’t motivated by the identical mission to “enhance” my faith’s popularity. “I selected to not fear about illustration an excessive amount of,” she tells me. “This novel is simply my completely trustworthy tackle among the worlds I’ve immediately skilled or been adjoining to.”
Her perspective is being sought out and celebrated, and Basically is already one among social media’s most talked-about books on Muslim ladies over the previous few years. It has landed on quite a few “should learn” lists of 2025, with advance evaluations pouring in—primarily from white readers.
Younis, a peace-building practitioner, has a B.A. in trendy historical past and English from Oxford College and a Ph.D. in worldwide affairs from Durham College. She is an professional on Iraqi politics, specializing in political mediation and combating violent extremism. She infuses a few of these credentials into her ebook’s protagonist, Nadia, a scholar who has been disowned by her conservative Muslim mom and not too long ago dumped by her feminine lover. Nadia accepts a United Nations job in Iraq to place her analysis into use on the bottom, to de-radicalize and rehabilitate ladies from ISIS at a time when their residence international locations aren’t eager on welcoming them again. This broader storyline was immediately impressed by Younis’s personal experiences.
“As a part of my profession working in peace-building within the Center East, I used to be requested by the Iraqi authorities to design a de-radicalization program for ISIS ladies,” she tells me. “Touring to a refugee camp to satisfy a few of these ladies, I couldn’t assist however marvel how I’d have coped of their place.”
As a Muslim teen, Younis studied beneath a cleric named Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki at Islamic College. “I discovered his sermons inspiring and fascinating. I used to be shocked when he later joined Al-Qaeda,” she says. “He by no means tried to recruit me, however I’ve at all times questioned what would have occurred if he had. As an alternative, I grew up, went to school, and moved away from faith.” Younis mentions this cleric by title in her novel, giving Nadia related publicity to his inflexible and ultra-conservative views on gender.
The fictional Nadia additionally distances herself from faith, in a single scene telling somebody at a bar, “I’ve transitioned out of being a Muslim,” whereas “scanning the bar for beards,” cautious of being labelled an apostate—the penalty of which, she believes, remains to be beheading. Reinforcing the archaic dying penalty for apostasy (which is hardly upheld in observe in the present day), Younis depicts the huge chasm between her liberal protagonist and what she sees because the repressiveness of faith. “Nadia is a way more excessive individual than I’m, and it was enjoyable to have a personality do issues I by no means would,” says Younis. “I like the best way she speaks her thoughts, confronts individuals, and takes dangers.”
The connection on the crux of the novel develops between Nadia and one former ISIS bride named Sara, who Nadia vows to rescue from the refugee camp and reunite together with her toddler daughter. In Sara, Younis efficiently debunks myths and challenges stereotypes in regards to the supposedly submissive Muslim girl who would be part of ISIS. Embodying the spirit and vocabulary of a “hijabi impolite woman from Mile Finish [a London neighborhood],” Sara reminds Nadia of her youthful self.
“The novel was born after I imagined a fifteen-year-old model of myself as an ISIS bride, sitting throughout from the thirty-year-old model of myself as an support employee,” says Younis. “It was instantly humorous to consider how my teenage self would reply to me as I’m in the present day. She’d be so disillusioned, would name me a sell-out, and have an annoyingly superior angle together with her half-baked political idealism.”
I instantly agreed with Younis’s expression, “half-baked political idealism,” to explain the catalyst driving Sara—and Shamima, who Sara’s character was seemingly impressed by—in the direction of the supposed utopia of an Islamic Caliphate. For me, the protected, calculated, and politically appropriate response to the Shamima Begam debacle would most likely be, “I can’t think about why younger Muslim teenagers within the West would need to be part of ISIS!” However the fact is, I can empathize. For disenfranchised younger ladies rising up within the shadow of post-9/11 Islamophobia, grappling with id crises—too “Western” for his or her conservative mother and father and too “Brown” and “backward” for his or her European and American friends—an organized society promising inclusion, fulfilment, and non secular salvation, will need to have sounded engaging. Many people training Muslims will “condemn” extremist factions of the religion in a heartbeat—but we nonetheless perceive why they could entice naïve younger Muslims in quest of some path, id, construction, and acceptance.
(Picture of Shamina Begum. Supply: Laura Lean/Getty/The New Yorker)
In Basically, Nadia shares this empathy and understanding, having skilled the magnetism of the cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, first-hand. And whereas an encounter with an Al-Qaeda recruiter may come throughout as dramatized and over-the-top, for me, Nadia’s drastic departure from Islam appeared much more exaggerated. The second that triggered her mom disowning her, for example, was the sight of a photograph of Nadia with out a headband, together with her arm round a male pal—one thing that appears fairly trivial, hardly warranting a household schism. Later, when visiting her grandfather, he apparently refers to Nadia as a “whore” due to the tattoo on her wrist.
Nadia carries this trauma together with her to Iraq, and her descriptions of Muslim ladies initially reinforce unfavorable stereotypes. “My sweat turned chilly as a gaggle of girls walked in sporting lengthy abayas and headscarves. They had been dressed no in another way to my mom, however nonetheless, I used to be terrified,” writes Younis, connoting abayas with extremism and concern. Nevertheless, the following scene lightens the stress—and my apprehension, as she weaves layers of nuance and humor into the textual content: “The woman leaned on her forearms, her extreme facial features incongruous together with her diamante-trimmed headband. I too had beloved diamante headscarves, again after I was spiritual, bringing a touch of the 90s WAG to my glamour-less Islamic life,” she writes.
All through the ebook, Younis reveals many such juxtapositions between the supposed hazard and violence of those ISIS brides, and their comedic naivety and mediocrity. A few of these cases, I’ve to confess, are fairly humorous—reminiscent of when Eli, a Finnish woman who joined ISIS, says, “I by no means left my residence in Mosul, apart from the market. I didn’t shoot weapons; I simply made a number of stuffed aubergines. Actually, lots. I couldn’t kill anybody, besides with ldl cholesterol.” Sara additionally admits, “It didn’t stay as much as the hype. They simply wished the ladies at residence. I used to be like, if I wished an organized marriage and to spend all day cooking and cleansing, I may’ve stayed in East London, you get me?”
Nadia’s personal voice is equally efficient in relaying comedic aid as she makes the prospect of ISIS brides rather less threatening. “I’d heard that ISIS thought of white converts to be probably the most fascinating brides. Think about fleeing Europe for the land of Islam, and also you’re nonetheless second fiddle to some white woman who’s misplaced management of her hole 12 months,” she displays.
Of her earlier, spiritual section, she writes, “Generally it was laborious to kneel on my prayer mat and imagine the phrases I used to be reciting. Was there actually some massive daddy within the sky who massively wished me to abstain from getting right down to Flo Rida on Thirsty Thursdays at Oceana?”
I appreciated a few of these moments of comedy, however whereas humor may make the heaviness of the difficulty extra palatable for readers, I couldn’t assist however marvel if some issues simply aren’t laughing issues. Younis, although, believes this factor was key in serving to readers view ISIS brides in a extra nuanced gentle. “The information is stuffed with distress all day every single day, and we come to novels for one thing else. I wished my novel to be a gripping, hilarious web page turner that may additionally open readers’ eyes to a completely completely different a part of the human expertise,” she tells me. “This isn’t a sermon; it’s an important trip that can make you assume and help you come to your individual conclusions.”
Certainly, Younis’s writing makes one factor evident—that many of those ladies had been victims of brainwashing, relatively than killers or criminals themselves. “Every thing pointed to the identical conclusion: the women had been younger, naïve and reckless, however they weren’t terrorists,” she writes—a sentiment many people insist is true of Shamima Begum.
And whereas a lot of the plot takes place over Nadia’s journey to de-radicalize these ladies via a program she creates, the small print and depth of this course of felt like an afterthought. “For every girl who’d are available, we’d ask a set of questions to find out the psychological and social help they wanted, earlier than drawing up a personalised help plan,” she writes. It might have been attention-grabbing to see this additional developed. As an alternative, we learn in regards to the hiring of Sheikh Jason, a Muslim convert from California, who acts as each counsellor and non secular advisor to the women, but typically comes throughout as a bumbling hippie out of his depth.
And therein lies my basic discomfort with Basically. The ebook’s illustration of Islam tends to fall into extremes—those that be part of ISIS, and people who are like laid again, flip flop-wearing Sheikh Jason, who a minimum of will get it proper when he describes Islam as “peace-loving and peace-seeking.”
Younis believes that via comedy, she will spotlight quite a lot of personalities from this spiritual demographic. “There are numerous various kinds of Muslims, who interpret and observe the religion in their very own methods, and the novel tries to truthfully painting this big selection of experiences,” she says. “There’s a bitchy fundamentalist, a yoga-loving Imam, a pansexual with co-dependency points, and every thing in between. It’s by attending to know, and love, particular particular person characters, that we break down spiritual and cultural monoliths that may really feel scary and alienating to individuals who don’t perceive them.”
Upon reflection, maybe I unfairly search characters who I personally establish with after I learn books about Muslims. And feasibly, the goal readership for this ebook isn’t Muslims like me who’re already conversant in, and fairly passionate in regards to the Shamima Begum case, however relatively, those that are unaware of the realities underpinning the radicalization of younger individuals, and who could discover comedy to be a useful device in connecting with characters. Maybe that’s why many of the pre-release social media evaluations commending the ebook are from white, non-Muslim readers. Possibly we Muslims are too distraught with the outcomes of Shamima’s numerous trials, too defensive of radicalized ladies like her, and too delicate to Islamophobia (which has solely elevated because the escalation of the disaster in Palestine) to understand comedic interpretations of a problem that hits too near residence.
For Shamima Begum, and ladies like her, are clearly the muses of this story. And their lives stay in limbo, sentenced to stay in refugee camps—generally with their youngsters, or worse, with simply their reminiscences. Shamima, after marrying an ISIS fighter at age 15, had three youngsters with him. All died younger—the final, whereas nonetheless a new child, in a Syrian refugee camp, after her British citizenship was revoked. In August 2024, she misplaced her last enchantment and can’t problem her citizenship removing additional within the U.Ok. courts. At this time, she stays in a Syrian detention camp.
Younger ladies like Shamima proceed to undergo tremendously due to pivotal errors they made as minors. Humanizing them is step one in the direction of advocating for his or her launch again residence—the place they are often pretty tried in courts of legislation. “We are able to’t stop one thing we don’t perceive,” says Younis. “Demonizing individuals who have been radicalized is identical as giving up. If we dismiss them as ‘evil’ or ‘insane,’ then we’re lacking a possibility to create change.”
Hafsa Lodi is an American-Muslim vogue and tradition journalist who explores the intersection of religion and feminism. Her non-fiction ebook, Modesty: A Trend Paradox (Neem Tree Press: 2020) investigates the causes, controversies and key gamers behind the worldwide modest vogue motion. Her debut fiction novel, Turbulence (Unbound: 2026) releases in February 2026.
In January 2023, I began listening to season two of journalist Josh Baker’s podcast, “I’m not a Monster.” In it, he investigates the case of Shamima Begum—the younger British girl who, at age 15, ran away from her residence in London with associates to affix ISIS in Syria, ending up at a refugee camp 4 years later after the autumn of the caliphate motion. The UK subsequently revoked her citizenship, forbidding her to return residence to her household. As a younger Muslim girl myself, drawn to progressive and feminist interpretations of Islam, I believed the scenario was tragic—each that Shamima and her associates hadn’t had the publicity to the constructive, compassionate, and peace-preaching religion that I had, and that the U.Ok. severely punished her for a mistake she made on the impressionable age of 15. I rapidly grew fascinated—no, obsessed—with the case. And whereas the podcast and accompanying BBC documentary are detailed, there was way more I wished to know. Shamima’s story stayed with me for months, and I questioned if anybody would make a fictionalized film about it.
It might not be a movie (not but anyway) however two years later, we’re seeing the discharge of Basically—a ebook by Nussaibah Younis, which follows the fictional plight of an educational who goes to Iraq to de-radicalize ladies who left their properties throughout Europe and the Center East to marry ISIS fighters. It’s not the intense, investigative exposé that I initially hoped for—as an alternative, Younis makes use of the totally sudden lens of comedy for her storytelling endeavor.
For me, this primary appeared like a questionable, even perhaps offensive style to discover younger ladies’s experiences with the horrors of ISIS and the destitution of a refugee camp. I ought to pause right here and, for the sake of transparency, be upfront about my biases. I establish as a training Muslim, and my writing is fueled by a want to jot down constructive representations of Muslims into the mainstream publishing world. Younis, by admission of her personal Instagram bio, identifies as a “non-practicing Muslim” and isn’t motivated by the identical mission to “enhance” my faith’s popularity. “I selected to not fear about illustration an excessive amount of,” she tells me. “This novel is simply my completely trustworthy tackle among the worlds I’ve immediately skilled or been adjoining to.”
Her perspective is being sought out and celebrated, and Basically is already one among social media’s most talked-about books on Muslim ladies over the previous few years. It has landed on quite a few “should learn” lists of 2025, with advance evaluations pouring in—primarily from white readers.
Younis, a peace-building practitioner, has a B.A. in trendy historical past and English from Oxford College and a Ph.D. in worldwide affairs from Durham College. She is an professional on Iraqi politics, specializing in political mediation and combating violent extremism. She infuses a few of these credentials into her ebook’s protagonist, Nadia, a scholar who has been disowned by her conservative Muslim mom and not too long ago dumped by her feminine lover. Nadia accepts a United Nations job in Iraq to place her analysis into use on the bottom, to de-radicalize and rehabilitate ladies from ISIS at a time when their residence international locations aren’t eager on welcoming them again. This broader storyline was immediately impressed by Younis’s personal experiences.
“As a part of my profession working in peace-building within the Center East, I used to be requested by the Iraqi authorities to design a de-radicalization program for ISIS ladies,” she tells me. “Touring to a refugee camp to satisfy a few of these ladies, I couldn’t assist however marvel how I’d have coped of their place.”
As a Muslim teen, Younis studied beneath a cleric named Sheikh Anwar Al-Awlaki at Islamic College. “I discovered his sermons inspiring and fascinating. I used to be shocked when he later joined Al-Qaeda,” she says. “He by no means tried to recruit me, however I’ve at all times questioned what would have occurred if he had. As an alternative, I grew up, went to school, and moved away from faith.” Younis mentions this cleric by title in her novel, giving Nadia related publicity to his inflexible and ultra-conservative views on gender.
The fictional Nadia additionally distances herself from faith, in a single scene telling somebody at a bar, “I’ve transitioned out of being a Muslim,” whereas “scanning the bar for beards,” cautious of being labelled an apostate—the penalty of which, she believes, remains to be beheading. Reinforcing the archaic dying penalty for apostasy (which is hardly upheld in observe in the present day), Younis depicts the huge chasm between her liberal protagonist and what she sees because the repressiveness of faith. “Nadia is a way more excessive individual than I’m, and it was enjoyable to have a personality do issues I by no means would,” says Younis. “I like the best way she speaks her thoughts, confronts individuals, and takes dangers.”
The connection on the crux of the novel develops between Nadia and one former ISIS bride named Sara, who Nadia vows to rescue from the refugee camp and reunite together with her toddler daughter. In Sara, Younis efficiently debunks myths and challenges stereotypes in regards to the supposedly submissive Muslim girl who would be part of ISIS. Embodying the spirit and vocabulary of a “hijabi impolite woman from Mile Finish [a London neighborhood],” Sara reminds Nadia of her youthful self.
“The novel was born after I imagined a fifteen-year-old model of myself as an ISIS bride, sitting throughout from the thirty-year-old model of myself as an support employee,” says Younis. “It was instantly humorous to consider how my teenage self would reply to me as I’m in the present day. She’d be so disillusioned, would name me a sell-out, and have an annoyingly superior angle together with her half-baked political idealism.”
I instantly agreed with Younis’s expression, “half-baked political idealism,” to explain the catalyst driving Sara—and Shamima, who Sara’s character was seemingly impressed by—in the direction of the supposed utopia of an Islamic Caliphate. For me, the protected, calculated, and politically appropriate response to the Shamima Begam debacle would most likely be, “I can’t think about why younger Muslim teenagers within the West would need to be part of ISIS!” However the fact is, I can empathize. For disenfranchised younger ladies rising up within the shadow of post-9/11 Islamophobia, grappling with id crises—too “Western” for his or her conservative mother and father and too “Brown” and “backward” for his or her European and American friends—an organized society promising inclusion, fulfilment, and non secular salvation, will need to have sounded engaging. Many people training Muslims will “condemn” extremist factions of the religion in a heartbeat—but we nonetheless perceive why they could entice naïve younger Muslims in quest of some path, id, construction, and acceptance.
(Picture of Shamina Begum. Supply: Laura Lean/Getty/The New Yorker)
In Basically, Nadia shares this empathy and understanding, having skilled the magnetism of the cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, first-hand. And whereas an encounter with an Al-Qaeda recruiter may come throughout as dramatized and over-the-top, for me, Nadia’s drastic departure from Islam appeared much more exaggerated. The second that triggered her mom disowning her, for example, was the sight of a photograph of Nadia with out a headband, together with her arm round a male pal—one thing that appears fairly trivial, hardly warranting a household schism. Later, when visiting her grandfather, he apparently refers to Nadia as a “whore” due to the tattoo on her wrist.
Nadia carries this trauma together with her to Iraq, and her descriptions of Muslim ladies initially reinforce unfavorable stereotypes. “My sweat turned chilly as a gaggle of girls walked in sporting lengthy abayas and headscarves. They had been dressed no in another way to my mom, however nonetheless, I used to be terrified,” writes Younis, connoting abayas with extremism and concern. Nevertheless, the following scene lightens the stress—and my apprehension, as she weaves layers of nuance and humor into the textual content: “The woman leaned on her forearms, her extreme facial features incongruous together with her diamante-trimmed headband. I too had beloved diamante headscarves, again after I was spiritual, bringing a touch of the 90s WAG to my glamour-less Islamic life,” she writes.
All through the ebook, Younis reveals many such juxtapositions between the supposed hazard and violence of those ISIS brides, and their comedic naivety and mediocrity. A few of these cases, I’ve to confess, are fairly humorous—reminiscent of when Eli, a Finnish woman who joined ISIS, says, “I by no means left my residence in Mosul, apart from the market. I didn’t shoot weapons; I simply made a number of stuffed aubergines. Actually, lots. I couldn’t kill anybody, besides with ldl cholesterol.” Sara additionally admits, “It didn’t stay as much as the hype. They simply wished the ladies at residence. I used to be like, if I wished an organized marriage and to spend all day cooking and cleansing, I may’ve stayed in East London, you get me?”
Nadia’s personal voice is equally efficient in relaying comedic aid as she makes the prospect of ISIS brides rather less threatening. “I’d heard that ISIS thought of white converts to be probably the most fascinating brides. Think about fleeing Europe for the land of Islam, and also you’re nonetheless second fiddle to some white woman who’s misplaced management of her hole 12 months,” she displays.
Of her earlier, spiritual section, she writes, “Generally it was laborious to kneel on my prayer mat and imagine the phrases I used to be reciting. Was there actually some massive daddy within the sky who massively wished me to abstain from getting right down to Flo Rida on Thirsty Thursdays at Oceana?”
I appreciated a few of these moments of comedy, however whereas humor may make the heaviness of the difficulty extra palatable for readers, I couldn’t assist however marvel if some issues simply aren’t laughing issues. Younis, although, believes this factor was key in serving to readers view ISIS brides in a extra nuanced gentle. “The information is stuffed with distress all day every single day, and we come to novels for one thing else. I wished my novel to be a gripping, hilarious web page turner that may additionally open readers’ eyes to a completely completely different a part of the human expertise,” she tells me. “This isn’t a sermon; it’s an important trip that can make you assume and help you come to your individual conclusions.”
Certainly, Younis’s writing makes one factor evident—that many of those ladies had been victims of brainwashing, relatively than killers or criminals themselves. “Every thing pointed to the identical conclusion: the women had been younger, naïve and reckless, however they weren’t terrorists,” she writes—a sentiment many people insist is true of Shamima Begum.
And whereas a lot of the plot takes place over Nadia’s journey to de-radicalize these ladies via a program she creates, the small print and depth of this course of felt like an afterthought. “For every girl who’d are available, we’d ask a set of questions to find out the psychological and social help they wanted, earlier than drawing up a personalised help plan,” she writes. It might have been attention-grabbing to see this additional developed. As an alternative, we learn in regards to the hiring of Sheikh Jason, a Muslim convert from California, who acts as each counsellor and non secular advisor to the women, but typically comes throughout as a bumbling hippie out of his depth.
And therein lies my basic discomfort with Basically. The ebook’s illustration of Islam tends to fall into extremes—those that be part of ISIS, and people who are like laid again, flip flop-wearing Sheikh Jason, who a minimum of will get it proper when he describes Islam as “peace-loving and peace-seeking.”
Younis believes that via comedy, she will spotlight quite a lot of personalities from this spiritual demographic. “There are numerous various kinds of Muslims, who interpret and observe the religion in their very own methods, and the novel tries to truthfully painting this big selection of experiences,” she says. “There’s a bitchy fundamentalist, a yoga-loving Imam, a pansexual with co-dependency points, and every thing in between. It’s by attending to know, and love, particular particular person characters, that we break down spiritual and cultural monoliths that may really feel scary and alienating to individuals who don’t perceive them.”
Upon reflection, maybe I unfairly search characters who I personally establish with after I learn books about Muslims. And feasibly, the goal readership for this ebook isn’t Muslims like me who’re already conversant in, and fairly passionate in regards to the Shamima Begum case, however relatively, those that are unaware of the realities underpinning the radicalization of younger individuals, and who could discover comedy to be a useful device in connecting with characters. Maybe that’s why many of the pre-release social media evaluations commending the ebook are from white, non-Muslim readers. Possibly we Muslims are too distraught with the outcomes of Shamima’s numerous trials, too defensive of radicalized ladies like her, and too delicate to Islamophobia (which has solely elevated because the escalation of the disaster in Palestine) to understand comedic interpretations of a problem that hits too near residence.
For Shamima Begum, and ladies like her, are clearly the muses of this story. And their lives stay in limbo, sentenced to stay in refugee camps—generally with their youngsters, or worse, with simply their reminiscences. Shamima, after marrying an ISIS fighter at age 15, had three youngsters with him. All died younger—the final, whereas nonetheless a new child, in a Syrian refugee camp, after her British citizenship was revoked. In August 2024, she misplaced her last enchantment and can’t problem her citizenship removing additional within the U.Ok. courts. At this time, she stays in a Syrian detention camp.
Younger ladies like Shamima proceed to undergo tremendously due to pivotal errors they made as minors. Humanizing them is step one in the direction of advocating for his or her launch again residence—the place they are often pretty tried in courts of legislation. “We are able to’t stop one thing we don’t perceive,” says Younis. “Demonizing individuals who have been radicalized is identical as giving up. If we dismiss them as ‘evil’ or ‘insane,’ then we’re lacking a possibility to create change.”
Hafsa Lodi is an American-Muslim vogue and tradition journalist who explores the intersection of religion and feminism. Her non-fiction ebook, Modesty: A Trend Paradox (Neem Tree Press: 2020) investigates the causes, controversies and key gamers behind the worldwide modest vogue motion. Her debut fiction novel, Turbulence (Unbound: 2026) releases in February 2026.
