Name: Aisha Saeed | The Wedding Week
Start: 2026-07-11T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Georgia Center for the Book at DCPL

Long-buried secrets resurface when a woman returns home for her sister’s lavish resort wedding in the Everglades, where gossiping aunties and Burmese pythons aren’t the only threats, in this suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of “The Matchmaker.”
A Cappella Books and Georgia Center for the Book welcome author Aisha Saeed in honor of her new book, “The Wedding Week.” ��
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the venue. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required, but preferred—signing up guarantees your seat.

This event is free and open to the public. It takes place in the Decatur Library Auditorium after the library has closed. Please enter through the Ground Floor, rear doors (from the lower level of the parking lot). Doors open at 6:30.
About the Book�
It’s been three years since Hena Mirza saw her family. Three years since her fiancé mysteriously vanished on their wedding day. Three years since everyone decided she was to blame.
When her younger sister, Lulu, calls with shocking news—she’s getting married in forty-eight hours and their mother is dying—Hena’s plan is simple: fly home, say goodbye, and leave before she reopens old wounds. But nothing about the trip is simple. This isn’t a one-day event. It’s an eight-day desi wedding with a guest list that eerily mirrors the one from her own failed nuptials. And though Hena feels unexpected sparks fly with two men in the wedding party—a childhood friend and a newcomer unfamiliar with her history—the remaining guests quickly make it clear: No one is happy she’s back.
Then Lulu’s carefully planned itinerary goes awry. Hena initially dismisses the strange incidents, but as days pass and the sabotage escalates, it becomes clear that someone is determined to destroy the wedding, just as Hena’s was destroyed years ago. To survive this week, she’ll have to uncover the culprit behind these attacks . . . before the past she’s tried to outrun finally catches up to her.�
About the Author
Aisha Saeed is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of books for children, including her middle grade novels “Hafsa’s Way,” “Omar Rising” (a Kirkus Best Book), and “Amal Unbound” (a New York Times bestseller and Global Read Aloud). Her picture book “Bilal Cooks Daal” received an APALA honor, and she also wrote the picture books “You and Me, Baby,” “Zuni and the Memory Jar,” and “The Together Tree.” Aisha is also a founding member of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books™. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her family.