Maria is pregnant. Without sleeping with anyone and outside of wedlock. When she finds out about it, she is terrified. It was the year of 2016. No one believed in miracles like the Virgin Mary anymore. Today, who would believe that Maria could get pregnant without having an intercourse with a man? Especially, since Maria is not a virgin.

In this thrilling and provocative international debut, Indirani offers a female point of view to mold surprising narratives on religious orthodoxy and how it affects the lives of women and other minorities. It explores the Islamic universe of a predominant culture in modern Indonesia with thorny issues like religious extremism and repression of freedom, by a lightness that the news cannot afford. Nineteen stories show a widely multifaceted face of Islamic culture without demonization, but showing the dynamics between modernity and traditions, between radicalisms and freedom. The stories expand the possibilities of contemporary fiction as they speak of religion and Muslim women like no one has ever done.