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Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea’s novel Girls of Riyadh looks at whether you can be both a twenty-first century girl and a Saudi girl’ฆThe girls of Riyadh are young, attractive and living by Saudi Arabia’s strict cultural traditions. Well, not entirely. Is it possible to be what your respected Muslim culture expects of you and sneak out behind your parents’ backs to date, shop and gorge on American TV? Gamrah’s faith in her new husband is not reciprocated’ฆSadeem is a little too willing to please her fiancรฉ’ฆMichelle is half-American and the wrong class for her boyfriend’s family’ฆLamees has to work hard – which leaves little time to love’ฆHow can you please your family, your man and your self?