JEDDAH: For Dubai-based journalist and author Hafsa Lodi, whose nonfiction book “Modesty: A Fashion Paradox” examined the politics of dress, the recent publication of her debut novel, “Turbulence,” “feels like a blessing.”
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“I didn’t even know if it was even going to be published,” she told Arab News recently. The manuscript was completed four years ago, but its original publisher went out of business and the work was in limbo.
An independent press in the UAE, The Dreamwork Collective, stepped in and published it within months.
The novel follows Dunya, a British Muslim woman living in the Gulf, who goes into labor on a flight after making a shocking discovery.
