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It was by chance that Kia Abdullah stumbled upon the charming city of Richmond, where she settled in Yorkshire with her husband Peter Watson two years ago.
Looking to get away from the noise and speed of London life in search of a quality of life that is very natural, the rolling countryside of the Yorkshire Dales and Peak District National Parks caught his eye.
They had almost moved into Reeth when her genuine realtor commented that she lived in Richmond. “We thought ooh we’ll take a look at it and absolutely fell in love with it,” recalls Kia. “It’s such a smart balance between simple access to the valleys and amenities. “
Kia wrote not long ago about the idyll they discovered: “We discovered what we were looking for: a log cabin, a cobbled street leading to a river and neighbors who left a new rocket on our doorstep and hot cheese buns” – however, speaking of her “nicer but lonelier” lifestyle, Array revealed in the Times in July that she hadn’t made a single friend in the area.
When we spoke on the phone two months later, when his latest e-book Truth Be Told is published, Kia says the column has made an impact. Since then she has met someone who has recently moved to town and who has also joined others.
“I miss my friends and my family circle a lot at times, but in terms of quality of life, access to nature and being able to walk down the street without worrying about crime, contaminants and street harassment, it’s been incredibly wonderful,” Kia said. “I’m not sure I can reconcile the two: how much I miss my friends and the family circle about the quality of life here, the freshest food, the nicest people. “
Before the great move, the 38-year-old man had lived in the capital since his birth. Born and raised in Tower Hamlets in east London, she grew up with loose school food in a circle of 8 relatives whose parents are from Bangladesh. He visited the library with his sisters every Saturday and maximized his e-book loan limit week after week.
“I had a satisfied childhood, ” she said to herself. ” In fact, I was a tomboy and I was allowed to roam. Once I reached puberty around the age of 12 or thirteen, I believe that the machinery of conservatism that exists in my network was launched and suddenly I discovered that I intended to reposition my habit: to dress more modestly. with the boysArray. . I was angry about it, like someone who was naturally very alive and looking to be in the world.
Kia’s reports have fueled her character from Zara Kaleel, a former lawyer turned attacking counselor, who stars in this novel and Take It Back, the first with a lead publisher. “She’s very trapped between two cultures,” says Kia, who wrote to me in July about identifying as a cultural Muslim. “On the one hand, he loves his culture and his wealth.
“And there are so many brilliant things that I have learned from my culture; we have very strong ties, for example, so not only does it depend on your nuclear family, there is a giant network in which you can succeed. “Array.
“But the other aspect of the coin is that I had to have an arranged marriage and stick to a culture that existed in my community. Zara also has to deal with two fictional worlds. For me, it’s almost healing to write it because one way of dealing with some of the things that I experienced.
Kia seeks to read about new upheavals through fiction, focusing on courtroom dramas. Take It Back, he said, with the intention of asking how Muslims are captured in the media and emphasizing that other people do things, smart and bad, “because we decided to do it as individuals, not because of our race or our faith. “
In Truth Be Told, problems of consent, male rape and poisonous masculinity come to the fore. The novel, published last week, focuses on Kamran Hadid, a privileged 17-year-old who, after a drunken night out that leads to a sexual encounter, will have to wonder if he has consented to what has happened.
“I like to think you can read it in two ways,” says Kia. “First, as a natural audience mystery for those who need to page, however, the moment examines the common stigma surrounding male rape. I think this is rarely discussed in fiction and makes the reader wonder how we participate in the culture of poisonous masculinity. How do these young people and how can we make a difference to allow them to be vulnerable?”
“I think when men are suffering something like sexual assault, it’s hard for them to communicate,” he says. “With the book, I hope to start some vital conversations.
“I also sought to show that even when you have all the pieces in place and you come from a very privileged environment, anything like that can undo your life and destroy it. Something like aggression doesn’t just make other people in society vulnerable. “, anyone can. “
While he now has four-book agreements with Harper Collins and is executing his third release loan in 2021, Kia’s main source of income is writing. Together with Peter, a photographer, he runs the Atlas blog
Their new adventure saw them explore Aruba and the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean in December, before plans for Senegal and Gambia this year were postponed due to coronavirus.
However, for Kia, as the old cliche goes, there is no such position as being at home. “When we did our big year of travel, it was with an indistinct concept of wanting to locate a position that we could live in, but I learned that there was no position like home, even with time,” he says. “I think I would miss my compatriots too much; there is something about British humor, British courage, our psyche. I don’t think I would place it anywhere else. “
In addition to writing, Kia founded and runs Asian Booklist, a non-profit organization that promotes diversity in publishing. “Often times, other people will say that the publication is a meritocracy, but if you think that artistic ability is distributed slightly between ethnicities, classes, genders, etc. , then the arts cannot be a meritocracy – the numbers just don’t go up. If that was the case, we would have more books by authors of color, we would have more books by working-class writers. “
The Asian book list consists of two parts; Kia hopes to illustrate knowledge about the few books published by British Asian authors, while highlighting the books that exist, encouraging others to upload them to their reading lists.
“It’s a bit of a bird and egg scenario: if British Asian authors don’t sell, other people might not publish them. But if they don’t publish Asian authors and put their marketing dollars behind them, they won’t sell. “
“For me, Asian Booklist is a way to harness our collective purchasing power. . . If I can recruit another 2000 people in my newsletter and tell them how about reading more of those books through British Asian authors, then maybe we can push more. list of best sellers and will inspire publishers to publish more. It’s a game of numbers: unless those other people buy their books, they may not sell. “
Truth Be Told is available now and can be found at local bookstores, as well as on Waterstones and on Amazon.
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