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Book SynopsisNamed a Best Book of 2022 So Far by The New Yorker!
?Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose?they?re all here in this romp of a book.? ?Oprah Daily
A Phenomenal Book Club Pick and a New York Times Book Review Group Text Selection, Love Marriage is a glorious moving novel from Booker Prize shortlisted Monica Ali, who has ?an inborn generosity that cannot be learned? (The New York Times Book Review).In present-day London, 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 formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe.
As the wedding day draws near, misunderstandings, infidelities, and long-held secrets upend both Yasmin?s relationship and that of her parents, a ?love marriage,? according to the family lore that Yasmin has believed all her life.
A gloriously acute observer of class, sexual mores, and the mysteries of the human heart, Monica Ali has written a ?riveting? (
BookPage, starred review) social comedy and a moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another that?s ?sure to please Ali?s fans and win some new ones? (
Publishers Weekly).
