Yasmin Azad was born in Galle, Sri Lanka, and educated at Sacred Heart Convent. She obtained an English honors degree from the University of Ceylon and taught at the University of Kelaniya. In her mid-twenties, she moved to the United States, where she raised her three children and worked as a mental health counselor for over twenty-five years. Her memoir, Stay, Daughter, draws on her experiences growing up in a close-knit Muslim society in the Galle Fort. The story follows the history of a community that, in the late 19th century, breaks with tradition to give girls a secular education outside of their homes. It draws on a situation almost all Muslims struggle with: the challenge of balancing the rules of orthodox Islam with the freedom and innovations of the modern world. Her writing has been published in Navasilu, Solstice Literary Magazine (USA), and The Massachusetts Review.

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• Stay, Daughter (2020)