Brick Lane
Monica Ali • 2003
Devastation Rating
poverty literary fiction family loss
Our Take
Nazneen arrives in London from Bangladesh for an arranged marriage and the novel watches her slow, difficult becoming. Ali writes the interior life of a woman given no language for her own desires with patience and precision. The poverty is real, the dislocation is real, and the ending is hard-won.
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