Love Marriage

<b><b>Named a Best Book of 2022 So Far by <i>The New Yorker</i>!</b><br> <br> <b>“Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose—they’re all here in this romp of a book.” <i>—Oprah Daily</i></b><br> <br> <b>A Phenomenal Book Club Pick and a <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Group Text Selection, <i>Love Marriage </i>is a glorious moving novel from Booker Prize shortlisted Monica Ali, who has “an inborn generosity that cannot be learned” (<i>The New York Times Book Review)</i>.</b></b><br><br>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.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>A gloriously acute observer of class, sexual mores, and the mysteries of the human heart, Monica Ali has written a “riveting” (<i>BookPage</i>, 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” (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).