Love marriage / Monica Ali.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2022Description: 419 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781982181475
- 823/.92 23
- PR6101.L45 L68 2022
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fiction | Hanover Public Library Shelves | FIC ALI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001220418 |
Browsing Hanover Public Library shelves, Shelving location: Shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
FIC ALEX Second chances in New Port Stephen : a novel / | FIC ALGE The banker's wife : a novel / | FIC ALHA Celestial bodies / | FIC ALI Love marriage / | FIC ALLA Miss Lattimore's letter / | FIC ALLE Lost Lake / | FIC ALLE Ripper : a novel / |
Includes bibliographical references (page 419).
Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel opens as Yasmin, her parents and her brother pile into their car, packed with Indian food prepared by Yasmin's mother, to go to dinner to meet Joe's mother in her elegant townhouse in one of London's poshest neighborhoods. Contrary to all of Yasmin's fears, her unsophisticated and somewhat flamboyant mother is embraced and celebrated by Helen and her friends. Many complications ensue when Yasmin discovers that Joe has had an affair with a co-worker, and Yasmin's ne'er do well brother is banished from the house by her father, and Yasmin's mother moves to Helen's house in protest. Love Marriage is a story of emotionally fraught self-discovery and how the secrets people keep hidden affect their most intimate relationships.
There are no comments on this title.