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The Roots of Her Name
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher: Sophia Lovato
Published: Apr 15 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Aisha Rahman lives two lives. By day, she is the dutiful Bangladeshi-Canadian daughter her immigrant parents dreamed of, studying sociology while honoring family, faith, and tradition. By night, she writes anonymous reflections about the identity she cannot name: her love for women.
When she meets Riley Torres, a bold muralist painting immigrant women's stories across city walls, Aisha's carefully divided worlds collide. Riley's art demands visibility. Aisha's family demands silence. As their slow-burn romance deepens, Aisha must choose: preserve the peace of her heritage, or claim the love that makes her whole.
From tense Eid dinners where aunties whisper about marriage, to stolen kisses beneath Riley's vibrant murals, to the moment her mother finds Riley's paint-stained scarf, Aisha learns that truth is not destruction. It is translation. Love does not erase faith; it illuminates it.
When her cousin Samira confesses her own forbidden love, Aisha realizes silence was never protection. It was a cage. Presenting her research publicly while her parents watch from the shadows, Aisha finally speaks her name: queer, Bangladeshi, spiritual, loving.
In this luminous debut collaboration by Blair Kade and Anika Sultana, The Roots of Her Name weaves a tapestry of cultural memory, sapphic passion, and generational healing. Aisha discovers what her mother always knew: some things grow stronger when steeped longer in truth.
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