Hi! I’m Aleeza Kassam! First a bit about me— I’m a first-year student at Toronto City University studying journalism because I want to be an investigative journalist one day. I love octopuses, old-school mystery novels, movies, and salad bowls (and curry bowls, grain bowls, and really any food all mixed together in a big bowl). Today I’m going to tell you a bit about the amazing city I live in, Toronto!
I didn’t grow up here— I grew up in a small town— Alderville, Ontario, which is on the Bay of Quinte.
My mom is a librarian there, and I spent a lot of time reading everything the library while she worked. Isn’t it the cutest library you’ve ever seen? Alderville is quiet and gorgeous, and I miss it, but I never really fit in there. Probably because we were one of the only Indian families in town, and it’s hard being one of the only person of color when you’re also kind of an awkward nerd.
But I live in Toronto now. My university campus is downtown, right in the busiest part of the city. It’s just a block from Yonge and Dundas, which is the busiest intersection in the whole country. With the giant billboards and thousands of people… it feels like another planet from where I grew up.
I had some… let’s call it drama recently when I tried to use my investigative skills to find out what happened to this super hot guy who disappeared from campus in the fall, and while I was trying to figure it all out, I got to see parts of the city that I didn’t even know existed. Like, I went to this massive house party in a real Toronto mansion. Me, Aleeza Kassam from Alderville, hanging out with one-percenters? And I was at a yacht club right downtown. It was March, so a lot of the huge sailboats were wrapped up, but it was wild! I can’t believe that people own boats that size!
But my favorite part of Toronto is still my campus. It’s the perfect blend of modern and old buildings, and I met the absolute best people in the world there. I will always have the best (and in some ways the worst) memories at Toronto City University. Especially in my dorm room in East House, this old mansion-turned university residence, because that is where I met my boyfriend. I am so glad I came to school here!
A missing student. A singular investigation. A new romance. Every bit of it is a mystery in a delightful novel of cosmic twists by the author of How to Win a Breakup.
East House is the oldest and least desirable dorm on campus, but it has a draw for lonely university freshman Aleeza Kassam: Jay Hoque, the hot and broody student who vanished from East House five months ago without a trace. It’s irresistible to an aspiring investigative journalist like Aleeza.
But when she starts receiving texts from Jay, the mystery takes an unexpected turn. To put it mildly. His messages are coming not only from Aleeza’s own dorm room but from the past—only weeks before he disappeared. Sharing space, if not time, Aleeza and Jay are living the impossible, and they start working together to prevent his inevitable disappearance. Causing a temporal paradox that could blow up the universe is a risk they’re going to have to take.
Aleeza digs through Jay’s suspicious friends, enemies, and exes, determined to find out what happened to him. Or what will happen to him. But it’s becoming more than a mystery. Aleeza is catching feelings for her charming new roommate. Wherever, and whenever, he may be.B0CL7L3H79
Fiction [Skyscape, On Sale: October 1, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781662520518 / ]
After a childhood raised on Bollywood, Monty Python, and Jane Austen, Farah self-rejected her writing career before jotting down a single word, despite admitting her ultimate fantasy was to be a writer. But when she could no longer keep the story arcs straight in her daydreams, she started writing a few years ago and never looked back. She writes comedic women’s fiction full of huge South Asian families, delectable food, and most importantly, brown people falling stupidly in love. Prior to writing, she had careers in Human Resources and Psychotherapy. She lives in Toronto with her patient husband, surly teenager, and delightful middle-grader, along with two gerbils, one hamster, one rabbit, and a fish named Silvia.
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