How I accidentally became a global stock photo & other wonderful stories
By: Shubnum Khan
Publisher: Pan Macmillian South Africa
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Johannesburg, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781770107786; 9781770107793
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Muslim women; Biography; Muslims; English Women authors; English Authors
Other titles: How I accidentally became a global stock photo and other wonderful stories
Description: "How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo and Other Strange and Wonderful Stories is part memoir, part travelogue and part love letter. Shubnum Khan takes the reader on a journey around the world. Whether it is teaching children in a remote village in the Himalayas, attending a writers' residency where the movie The Blair Witch Project was shot, getting pulled out of the ocean in Turkey or becoming a bride on a rooftop in Shanghai, Shubnum is quirky, moving and vulnerable in what she shares. Shubnum offers an introspective reflection on what it means to be a woman, particularly a single Muslim woman in South Africa, trying to find herself in a modern world. The stories are drawn from her life journey, which has been full of unexpected twists and turns, and are interspersed with reflections on culture and religion as well as musings on family, relationships and love. Mindy Project meets Bridget Jones's Diary with a side of Keeping Up With The Kandasamys, this is a book about holding onto hope and a reminder that once 'you step off the edge, anything can happen."--