Nell Freudenberger
The Newlyweds
Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Fiction 2012
Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2012
From one of America's most dazzling talents comes a cross-continental love story: a brilliantly observed, warmly engaging novel about the exhilarations—and complications—of getting, and staying, wed.
Amina Mazid is 24 when she leaves Bangladesh for Rochester, New York, and for George Stillman, the husband who met and wooed her online. It's a 21st century romance that echoes ancient traditions--the arranged marriages of her home country. And though George falls for Amina because she is "straightforward" and doesn't "play games," each is hiding something from the other. Amina struggles to find her place in America--as a Muslim woman; an aspiring teacher; a wife with her own desires. But it is only when they put an ocean between them that Amina and George discover if they have a future—or if their secrets will tear them apart.
Traveling from American suburbs to the cities of South Asia, The Newlyweds is a tour de force—a novel as rich with misunderstandings as it is unlikely connections.
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Riveting. Freudenberger has uncanny abilities
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Powerful . . . The love polyhedron that is The Newlyweds is at heart a tale of never-ending migrations. Truths are present in its clear-eyed openness and compassion toward the world, and the understanding and sympathy it displays for the nostalgia of all human beings
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Freudenberger demonstrates her assurance as a novelist and her knowledge of the complicated arithmetic of familial love and the mathematics of romantic passion. Michiko Kakutani
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A true triumph...Freudenberger's most successful book yet.
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