Love Marriage: A Novel

"Monica Ali’s new novel is an absorbing and meaty exploration of love, family and culture. Yasmin Ghorami is a young doctor following in her ambitious immigrant father’s footsteps. She’s newly engaged to Joe Sangster, a fellow doctor who’s the son of an infamously outspoken feminist and public intellectual with boundary issues. There are differences in race, class and religion to navigate between the middle-class, Muslim and Indian-born Ghoramis and the white, upper-middle-class Sangsters, and Ali delineates those distinctions with nuance. Yet, to its credit, the characters of Love Marriage are more interesting than their well-worn challenges."