Lost and Found

By Sumaiya Ahmed

LOST AND FOUND is an exploration of love blurred with heartbreak, mental health and sexual abuse, female identity, dis/believing, and trying to break free from the chains of cultural toxicity. Ahmed uses haunting language to bring life to the gut-wrenching poems, reflecting on childhood trauma, that first-once-in-a-lifetime love and the broken heart that follows. It is a collection about how depression and anxiety can affect every day life and the role of a daughter in a South Asian family. It is a journey about pain and finding a semblance of hope in all that darkness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sumaiya Ahmed
• Release date: Dec 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201101329

Sumaiya Ahmed

Sumaiya Ahmed is a lifestyle, opinion and sex-positive writer, aiming to break down the boundaries of cultural stigma and shame attached to mental health and sexuality within the South Asian culture and bring marginalised topics to light. She is the author of two poetry collections, LOST AND FOUND and REALITY. THE ART OF FAKING IT is her debut novel. Sumaiya loves cookies, Modern Family and romance novels. To keep up-to-date with her, follow her blog: www.sumaiyaahmed.com  

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ISBN: 9798684160844

this is for my mother, a woman with heaven beneath her feet and a lifetime of endurance and disappointments – i wish i could have made it a little easier for you. but maybe now you’ll understand.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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there aren’t nearly enough words to express my gratitude and love for the girls who have supported me and been my shoulder to cry on, throughout all these years and in the creation of this collection. to nahima parvin, my first best friend and my lifelong confidant – thank you for always being there and for being brutally honest, even when i didn’t want to hear it. to nila mapplebeck, the only girl who gave me the strength to get through five years of school even without your presence there and