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A review by bookswithhan
How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures by Huma Qureshi
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
TW: Grief, Death of a Parent
After falling head over heels for Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love, I was kindly gifted her memoir How We Met by Elliot & Thompson
Qureshi is an exceptional writer and uses language so expertly, whether she is writing short stories or about her own life.
How We Met is about Qureshi's life as a British Muslim and meeting her white boyfriend, now husband, and introducing him to her family. The journey of Qureshi is full of ups and downs; leaving home, introductions to several potential husbands, losing her father, gaining a dream job, moving cities to finally meeting her now husband.
I felt there were many moments all women would be able to relate to, regardless of religion. However it did make me think of my grandmother who is staunchly Catholic, pointing out all the eligible Catholic men in church every Sunday.
Memoirs are usually people that have suffered significant trauma or had some miraculous event happen. Qureshi states that her story isn't exceptional, but I disagree. I think everyone has an interesting story and I absolutely love the stories behind how couples met and their circumstances.
Huma Qureshi has 100% become an auto-buy author for me and I am so eager to see what she releases next. I've already been dipping back into TWDNTTPWL and How We Met. Her writing is so poignant and measured yet feels so effortless and as though your friend is telling you a story.
How We Met is out in paperback today and I urge you to grab a copy. And if you haven't grabbed TWDNTTPWL yet, this is your signal to get both. She is a writer that will have you thinking about her words, characters and life in the days, weeks and months that will follow.
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After falling head over heels for Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love, I was kindly gifted her memoir How We Met by Elliot & Thompson
Qureshi is an exceptional writer and uses language so expertly, whether she is writing short stories or about her own life.
How We Met is about Qureshi's life as a British Muslim and meeting her white boyfriend, now husband, and introducing him to her family. The journey of Qureshi is full of ups and downs; leaving home, introductions to several potential husbands, losing her father, gaining a dream job, moving cities to finally meeting her now husband.
I felt there were many moments all women would be able to relate to, regardless of religion. However it did make me think of my grandmother who is staunchly Catholic, pointing out all the eligible Catholic men in church every Sunday.
Memoirs are usually people that have suffered significant trauma or had some miraculous event happen. Qureshi states that her story isn't exceptional, but I disagree. I think everyone has an interesting story and I absolutely love the stories behind how couples met and their circumstances.
Huma Qureshi has 100% become an auto-buy author for me and I am so eager to see what she releases next. I've already been dipping back into TWDNTTPWL and How We Met. Her writing is so poignant and measured yet feels so effortless and as though your friend is telling you a story.
How We Met is out in paperback today and I urge you to grab a copy. And if you haven't grabbed TWDNTTPWL yet, this is your signal to get both. She is a writer that will have you thinking about her words, characters and life in the days, weeks and months that will follow.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Death of parent