Two Wives, One Family

How do you cope when your life expectations get turned upside down? What do you do when you imagine that your life is going to unfold one way, but it ends up flowing in a direction that you were not prepared for? Joanna Burrows finds herself faced with these types of questions after she is diagnosed with cancer and as she navigates the challenges of living a life of plural marriage.

Two Wives, One Family is the sequel to One Love, Two Wives, the contemporary women's fiction novel that introduces us to Joanna Burrows, a new convert to Islam, a new wife, and a new mother, who finds herself confronted with the concept of polygyny. In this installment, Joanna realizes that accepting the responsibilities of adulthood and family life can be difficult enough on its own but doing so under the duress of illness and with the added pressure of sharing a husband seems insurmountable at times. She ultimately discovers that when it comes to relationships, there needs to be an equal amount of give and take, especially when building a family. She realizes that a little bit of faith, a lot of divine grace, some love and some perseverance can provide the ingredients for a great recipe for serving a fulfilling dish of life lessons learned.