Lila Saqib

Your Mother-In-Law Loves You Lila Saqib

Khushuyet dostet dara: Dari for "your mother-in-law loves you", An Afghan saying when you enter the house just as food has been served meant to acknowledge the moment of happenstance and serendipity.

A feel-good story about friendship, kinship, and love.

Marzia Rashidi is an Afghan Canadian University student living in Vancouver, British Columbia. When tragedy strikes, she and her family are forced into unusual living circumstances; living with a family friend whose son Elias is anything but pleasant. How will she navigate this strange new dynamic? As if that wasn't enough, her sister gets engaged to the brother of the boy she has been obsessing over. Mysterious family secrets surface and even more changes take her by surprise. Will it be enough to send Marzia over the edge? With her cousins Soraya and Ameena, and her best friend Reiyna by her side, Marzia learns to navigate through the pitfalls, triumphs and failures of life as a second generation Canadian.