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GOOD INTENTIONS
Fiction, 352 pages
4th Estate, 2022
Nur and Yasmina are in love.
They’ve been together for four happy years.
But Nur’s parents don’t know that Yasmina exists.
As Nur’s family counts down to midnight on New Year’s Eve, Nur is watching the clock more closely than most: he has made a pact with himself, and with his girlfriend, Yasmina, that at midnight he will finally tell his Pakistani parents the truth. That he has spent years hiding his personal life from them to preserve his image as the golden child. That he has built a life with a woman he loves and she is Black.
Nur wants to be the good son his parents ask him to be, and the good boyfriend Yasmina needs him to be. But as everything he holds dear is challenged, he is forced to ask, is love really a choice for a second-generation immigrant son like him?
KASIM ALI
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Kasim Ali was longlisted for the 4th Estate B4ME Short Story Prize and shortlisted for Hachette's Mo Siewcherran Prize. He has also had a short story published in The Good Journal.
His first novel, GOOD INTENTIONS, was published in March 2022.
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