GIRLS OF RIYADH: Rajaa Alsanea: Penguin (2007): Fiction: 286 pages.Pick up this novel and join the email list of a young woman living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Each posting discloses events in the lives of her friends as they reach marriageable age in a society where men and women are kept strictly apart. Like young women everywhere they dream of true love and romance, but the strict Islamic standards of their society and the traditions of arranged marriage create almost unimaginable barriers to happiness for each of them. Banned in Saudi Arabia, the book gives outsiders an astonishingly intimate look at the lives of rich young Saudi women. You may envy their wealth but you’d never dream of changing places with them.
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I just read this over the Thanksgiving break and found it very interesting. It would pair nicely with Kabul Beauty School and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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