Book
Love marriage : a novel
Audience Adults
Published 2022 by Scribner, New York
ISBN 9781982181475
Bib Id 2513286
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description 419 pages ; 24 cm
More Details
Leader
03652cam a22005538i 4500
LCCN
2021-050889
ISBN
9781982181475 (hardcover) $28.00
1982181478
Call #
FIC Ali
Author
Title
Love marriage : a novel
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information
2022 by Scribner, New York :
Description
419 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 419).
Summary
"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. Joe hides the exact nature of his promiscuous past; Yasmin's brother and mother keep a monumental secret from their father; Yasmin has a wildly erotic affair of her own; and the story of her parents' love marriage proves to be a cover-up for a dark, tragic history. In the wake of extreme upheaval, Yasmin finds herself, and her life, transformed"--
Genre/Form
Domestic fiction
FORMATS
SERIES
TAGS
Also available as
Tags
Availability
| header | Locations | header | header |
|---|