Meri Marzi (My Wish)

Meri Marzi is a story of a 23-year-old Malay-Indian descent Singaporean poetess, Aafa Shah, who wishes to uncover her roots upon discovering old photographs and an unsent letter of her late grandfather before she was born. Her Malay father is a forebear from other parts of Maritime Southeast Asia, termed as 'Anak Dagang' (children of traders) consisting of Javanese and Bugis origin. Her mother, on the other hand, has a Kashmiri and Pathan ancestry whose parents fled from their homeland during WWII in the 1940s. 

While doing a special charity reading and book signing in Melbourne, Australia, she bumped into her deaf 'doppelganger'; Aicha. Being equipped with a hearing aid, she was a social worker volunteer who taught English and Arabic literature in the same orphanage she grew up in.  Having met someone of a different race (Afghani) yet with a mirror-image copy, Aafa had an inkling that they were related and she was the key to uncovering her roots; theirs. 

Aafa then later found out that her late grandfather was a Muslim revert and was married with a different identity prior to being Abdul Falah.