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  Brick Lane: A Novel

  by Monica Ali

  After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world is full of mysteries. How can she cross the road without being hit by a car (an operation akin to dodging raindrops in the monsoon)? What is the secret of her bullying neighbor Mrs. Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort... (more)
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  Alentejo Blue: Fiction

  by Monica Ali

  Following her National Book Critics Circle and Los Angeles Times Book Award-nominated, bestselling debut, Brick Lane , Monica Ali's splendid Alentejo Blue "rewards readers with characters who etch themselves into one's memory" ( People ). Set in a small Portuguese village, Alentejo Blue is a story of displacement and modernization told through the lives of the locals and of people who are just passing... (more)