Love from Mecca to Medina

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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 thats a contemplative exploration of faith, love, and the human condition (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart.

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

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. Adam is thrilled; its the reboot he needs and an opportunity to pray for a hijra in real life: to migrate to Zayneb in Chicago. Zayneb balks at the trip at first, having envisioned another kind of vacation, but then decides a spiritual reset is calling her name too. And they cant wait to see each othersurely, this is just what they both need.

But the trip is nothing like what they expect, from the appearance of Adams former love interest in their traveling group to the anxiety gripping Zayneb when shes 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

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S. K. Ali is theauthorofSaints andMisfits, a finalist for the American Library Associations 2018 William C. Morris Award and the winner of the APALA Honor Award and Middle East Book Honor Award; andLove from A to Z, aTodayshow Read with JennaBook Club selection. Both novels were named best YA books of the year by various media includingEntertainment WeeklyandKirkus Reviews. She is also the author ofMisfit in LoveandLove from Mecca to Medina. You can find Sajidah online at SKAliBooks.com and follow her on Instagram @SKAliBooks, TikTok @SKAliBooks, and on Twitter @SajidahWrites.