**Named one of Pop Sugar's Best Books to Put in your Beachbag this summer.** **A Booktrib "Romance to get you in the swing for Wedding Season" of 2019** **A Book Riot "Five New Diverse Romantic Comedies"** **Bustle's "21 new summer novels to spice up your summer reading"** To Leila Abid's tradit
The marriage clock: a novel
β Scribed by Zara Raheem
- Publisher
- HarperCollins; William Morrow Paperbacks
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 190 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- California--Los Angeles., Los Angeles (Calif.
- ISBN
- 0062877925
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Named one of Pop Sugar's Best Books to Put in your Beachbag this summer.
A Booktrib "Romance to get you in the swing for Wedding Season" of 2019
A Book Riot "Five New Diverse Romantic Comedies"
Bustle's "21 new summer novels to spice up your summer reading"
To Leila Abid's traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry. Yes, she wants to marry, but after 26 years of singledom, even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters worse, her parents are panicking, the neighbors are talking, and she's wondering, are her expectations just too high?
But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. So she decides it's time to stop dreaming and start dating.
It's an impossible mission of satisfying her parents' expectations,...
β¦ Subjects
California -- Los Angeles
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