Khayalami: My Home (Second Edition)

Home is where the heart is...After more than a decade and a half spent as an expat from the USA living in the "New South Africa," Ruqayyah K. Muhammad has come to intimately understand that phrase. With a voice vividly coloured by her unique perspective as an African-American Muslim woman, she reflects on the life she left behind and the one she has managed to build in her beautiful, ugly, inspiring, maddening, complicated new home. Through a creative mix of poetry, essays, letters, songs, and fanciful vignettes written over a span of more than fifteen years in South Africa, Khayalami explores a variety of topics--from love to loss, from pregnancy to politics, from creating community to cultivating knowledge of self. Originally published in 2018, in this new South African Edition reprint, the author shares an addendum containing six all-new pieces reflecting on the life and world-changing events of 2020. With warmth, insight, and honesty, Ruqayyah invites you into her home and into the inner recesses of her heart.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ruqayyah K. Muhammad is an African-American Muslim wife, mother, and writer who has resided in South Africa since 2004. She lives in Dawn Park (a suburb of Johannesburg) with her husband and their three children and runs the publishing and editing company DeepRootsBooks.com. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Muslim Journal, Azizah Magazine, The Flood, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Khayalami is her first book.