This was the first of five books I bought for our trip to Aruba. I bought it from the 2-for-1 table at Borders, and I think I had heard about it on NPR. I finished this on our first day of vacation. It was pretty well written and kept my attention.The book was about a Muslim Indian who grew up in Canada. He is reasonably assimilated into Canadian (and American) culture but agrees to let his parents arrange his marriage. Just when he begins all the preparations for his marriage, he begins to see a family friend in a different light and wonders if he should be with her instead.
I didn't find the book that different from other similarly-themed books I've read. About forty pages from the end, I thought to myself, "he could end up with either girl and it would not be unpredictable." But I enjoyed learning a bit more about Muslim Indians, and Alam added a tasteful backdrop of 9/11 to the story that I appreciated. A good read, but nothing unusually special.
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