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 […]
Here’s to you, Mrs. Mazid-Stillman
The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger