Especially with current times, the realizations they come to are good reminders for everyone: we can get through hard things. I loved getting to go on this spiritual and physical journey with the characters. The question becomes: will Adam and Zayneb come out of this trip stronger, or will they realize they’re not as perfect for one another as they thought? Zayneb reluctantly agrees to this change of plans, and what’s supposed to be a long-awaited reunion, becomes fraught with a series of miscommunications. The two are due for a romantic visit in England, but plans change when Adam realizes with his current health, it’d be best to go on Umrah while he still can. Zayneb is in the US for law school and Adam is in Qatar with his family, focusing on his artistic prospects, or lack thereof. Ali is a sophomore novel in the world of Adam and Zayneb, a couple, who after their Nikah, are still living apart. And they can’t wait to see each other-surely, this is just what they both need.īut the trip is nothing like what they expect, from the appearance of Adam’s former love interest in their traveling group to the anxiety gripping Zayneb when she’s supposed to be “spiritual.” As one wedge after another drives them apart while they make their way through rites in the holy city, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder: was their meeting just an oddity after all? Or can their love transcend everything else like the greatest marvels of the world? Zayneb balks at the trip at first, having envisioned another kind of vacation, but then decides a spiritual reset is calling her name too. Adam is thrilled it’s the reboot he needs and an opportunity to pray for a hijra in real life: to migrate to Zayneb in Chicago. Then a marvel occurs: Adam and Zayneb get the chance to spend Thanksgiving week on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, in Saudi Arabia.

Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation, making her miserable.

Painfully apart.Īdam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the Hijra, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina, and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. On the trip of a lifetime, Adam and Zayneb must find their way back to each other in this surprising and romantic sequel to the “bighearted, wildly charming” (Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author) Love from A to Z.

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