Naila’s parents are awfully, appallingly wrong, placing their own fixation with image above Naila’s right to her own life and even her own body. In a genre in which the forced marriage or marriage of convenience always turns out to be a romantic piece of luck, I appreciated the author tackling a darker story. With more suspense than a spy thriller and more horror than a zombie novel, this book is as gripping as it is important. They take her to Pakistan on the premise of visiting relatives, and it is only well into the trip that Naila discovers the sinister true purpose of her visit: marriage, with or without her consent. When, frustrated by these restrictions, she rebels and sneaks off to prom, her parents panic that the family’s reputation will be destroyed. Pakistani-American Naila is in love with her classmate Saif, but because her parents don’t approve, she hasn’t been able to do more than see him at school.
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