The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty

While my main focus is non-fiction reading this year, I still want to indulge myself in fantasy. I have 4 books read this year, all of them non-fiction. But in the background, I have been doing a couple's read of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Ali Chakraborty. About two years ago, I suggested to my wife that we start reading together since we've enjoyed sharing audiobooks on road trips in the car. We are generally pretty consistent - either through audiobooks or actually physically taking turns reading aloud together, usually with a fantasy lofi playlist playing on our TV. My wife had read this book previously and wanted an excuse to re-read it - and she (correctly) guessed that I would enjoy it. We listened to this book in an audio format. The story was awesome. The setting was unique for me (which most of my experience has been connected to more Western settings, which I've been trying to expand in the past few years). The backdrop for our swashbuckling story is the…