Kendra: This month, we’re talking about marriage stories—which, Sumaiyya, was one of the first themes that you picked for this year.
Sumaiyya: Yeah, we will be discussing books that feature married couples. One of us is married, and it’s not me. So as a Muslim who is in her twenties, I do spend a lot of time thinking about marriage and what it means to me. So I wanted to talk about books with Kendra that looked at marital relationships because I feel like it’s so, so intense and complicated and intimate. And I’m really excited about the books that we’ve selected.
Kendra: And one of the things that I have learned, I mean, since getting married—and I got married, oh, wow, I’m old . . . I got married seven years ago—so one of the things I’ve learned, though, is that all marriages look differently. And I think oftentimes, before I got married and even after I got married,
it was this . . . there was this ideal marriage that I was trying to achieve in my head. But that’s not how it works because there’s no marriage like yours. Right? You’re married to someone, and that’s a unique relationship. And that’s one of the things I liked about all of these books is that each the books that we’re going to talk about today represents a unique relationship
