SAMOOSAS AND SUNDAYS

168pp., paperback, Durban, 2024

Young adult novel set in Laudium, an affluent suburb in Pretoria.

As a young Indian woman, 22-year-old Ameera has to decide whether to be like every other Indian girl she grew up with and marry in her small hometown or go against her parents' wishes and follow her dream of working in New York.

Bilqees Hassen is pursuing a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree at Sedaka Makgatho Health Sciences University in Pretoria.