Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Here’s to you, Mrs. Mazid-Stillman

The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger

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I had a hard time with this book because Amina, the main character, a Bangladeshi woman who marries a man she meets online, didn’t seem to have any idea what she wanted (which makes it hard to invest in whether she gets it or not). Amina joins the website where she meets and falls in love with the American George in part due to higher aspirations than her small town in Bangladesh can afford her, and they wed despite judgement from Nasir, a former potential […]

You Say Love Story, I Say Are You Sure?

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“The Newlyweds” tells the story of Amina and George. Amina is living in Bangladesh and George in Rochester, NY, when they “meet” on a (dating?) site called AsianEuro.com.  After several months of communication over email and the phone, George travels to Bangladesh to meet Amina and her family properly.  During that visit, Amina and George become engaged and she eventually moves from Dhaka to Rochester, where they are married. Although the book is called “The Newlyweds” it’s not really about George and Amina as a […]



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