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Book for APRIL: Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali
From Publishers Weekly: The immigrant world Ali chronicles in this
penetrating, unsentimental debut has much in common with Zadie
Smith's scrappy, multicultural London, though its sheltered
protagonist rarely leaves her rundown East End apartment block where
she is surrounded by fellow Bangladeshis. After a brief opening
section set in East Pakistan-Nazneen's younger sister, the beautiful
Hasina, elopes in a love marriage, and the quiet, plain Nazneen is
married off to an older man-Ali begins a meticulous exploration of
Nazneen's life in London, where her husband has taken her to live.
