Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Know

Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of familial burdens and cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.

It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet—American, French, Indian, Muslim—is at a crossroads. This holiday with her professor parents should be a dream trip for the budding art historian. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is probably ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and now all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life instead of brooding in the City of Light.

Two hundred years before Khayyam’s summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her true love hidden from the Pasha who has “gifted” her with favored status in his harem. In the present day—and with the company of a descendant of Alexandre Dumas—Khayyam begins to connect allusions to an enigmatic 19th-century Muslim woman whose path may have intersected with Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Delacroix, and Lord Byron.

Echoing across centuries, Leila and Khayyam’s lives intertwine, and as one woman’s long-forgotten life is uncovered, another’s is transformed.

Povestit in naratiuni alternative care leaga secole, cel mai recent roman al autorului bestseller-ului New York Times, Samira Ahmed, urmareste viata a doua tinere care lupta pentru a-si scrie propriile povesti si a scapa de presiunea poverilor familiale si a asteptarilor culturale in lumi prea mult timp definite de barbati. Este august la Paris si Khayyam Maquet, in varsta de 17 ani - american, francez, indian, musulman - se afla la o rascruce de drumuri.