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About ummlaylaLocation: Wyoming Home Region: Age:35 Website: http://ummlayla.blogspot.com Favorite novels: The 13th Tale, Lisey's Story, The Time Travlers Wife, The Vampire Lestat, The Help, She's Come Undone Favorite writers: Stephen King, Anne Rice, Chuck Palahniuk Favorite music: depends on my mood... And it has to fit the story... Non-noveling interests: knitting, sewing, cooking, and anything else creative. |
Joined: October 13, 2009 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 9 NaNoWriMo buddies: 10
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Brief Author Bio: I am a Muslim American, born and raised in Denver, CO. My husband is from Egypt so I have a great love for that country too. We have four children that take up lots of time and brainpower... And are well worth it! I have been blogging and such for years now. I did the novel in a month with the help of the book... I think it will be even more fun with other writers. I hope to eventually publish something... Right now I just had a poem published in an anthology and that's a nice start. |
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Synopsis:
An American Muslim working as a teacher in an Islamic school and raising her three children is confounded when her husband's trip home to Cairo pushes her head-first into a plural marriage. Her engineer husband is as surprised as she is by this development, but a strong connection with his new neighbor in Cairo makes him take this path. The second wife is of an age where she has given up on getting married and in spite of reservations about becoming a second wife she accepts and enters into this new family.
They soon enter into a strange domestic dance that involves rivalry, pain, betrayal and eventually friendship.
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