King’s MFA Fiction Writer-in-Residence Reading: Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin

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Please join us for a special reading by Uzma Jalaluddin, author of Detective Aunty, Ayesha at Last, and Much Ado About Nada, and Writer-in-Residence at the King’s MFA in Creative Fiction residency.

About the book: After her husband’s unexpected death, the charming and tenacious Kausar Khan reluctantly settles into widowhood. But when her grown daughter is suspected of murder, she digs into the case to unmask the real killer in a page-turning whodunnit – the first in Uzma Jalaluddin’s new cozy mystery series.

Uzma will do a reading and talk about her work. Books will be available for purchase.

About the author: Uzma Jalaluddin is a critically acclaimed and bestselling Canadian novelist, playwright, public speaker, and teacher whose work focuses on “authentic, nuanced and entertaining stories about Muslims, South Asians, and Canadians.” Jalaluddin is a high school teacher and a former columnist on parenting and culture for the Toronto Star. She is also a member of a small writing circle known as the “Sisterhood of the Pen” with fellow novelists S. K. Ali and Ausma Zehanat Khan.

In partnership with the University of King’s College and King’s Co-op Bookstore

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