Good Intentions, Kasim Ali on The writing community chat show!

Kasim Ali works at Penguin Random House and has previously been shortlisted for Hachette’s Mo Siewcherran Prize, longlisted for the 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and has contributed to The Good Journal. He comes from Birmingham and now lives in London.<br /><br />His book, GOOD INTENTIONS, was released early this month and has had lots of amazing praise. You can see some of that praise below and the blurb!<br /><br />GOOD INTENTIONS:<br /><br />Moving, modern and utterly engaging.<br />What a talent<br />—Rhik Samadder, author of I Never Said I Love You<br /><br />Sensitive, smooth-toned and absorbingly honest<br />—Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People<br /><br />A magnificent and messy love story that broke my heart … for anyone who has ever known what it is to be conflicted in falling in love<br />—Huma Qureshi, author of How We Met<br /><br />Compelling, emotionally honest, and unafraid of the grey areas of race, faith, sexuality and love<br />—Lillian Li, author of Number One Chinese Restaurant<br /><br />BLURB:<br />Nur and Yasmina are in love<br /><br />They’ve been together for four happy years<br /><br />But Nur’s parents don’t know that Yasmina exists<br /><br />As Nur’s family counts down to midnight on New Year’s Eve, Nur is watching the clock more closely than most: he has made a pact with himself, and with his girlfriend, Yasmina, that at midnight he will finally tell his Pakistani parents the truth.<br /><br />That he has spent years hiding his personal life from them to preserve his image as the golden child.<br /><br />That he has built a life with a woman he loves and she is Black.<br />Nur wants to be the good son his parents ask him to be, and the good boyfriend Yasmina needs him to be.<br /><br />But as everything he holds dear is challenged, he is forced to ask, is love really a choice for a second-generation immigrant son like him?<br /><br />If you want to sponsor CJ Aggett on The Frontline 100k Walk, please visit here: <a href="https://events.soldierscharity.org/fu...." rel="noopene