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    No Sex in the City

    By Randa Abdel-Fattah

    3.5/5

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    It is a truth universally acknowledged . . . Esma is a modern Muslim woman with an age-old dilemma. She is well-educated, well-travelled and has excellent taste in music, but the hunt for Mr Right leads her to a number of Mr Wrongs. Together with wild-haired Ruby, principled Lisa, and drop-dead gorgeous Nirvana, Esma forms the No Sex in the City Club. Her quest for The One (or Mr Almost-Perfect) was never going to be easy, but soon enough it takes an unexpected and thrilling detour. 'Filled with humour and honesty, Randa has lifted the veil on arranged marriages and Muslim society, and proves that finding The One isn't easy for anyone, regardless of religion.' Kate Forster, author of The Perfect Location 'An enjoyable and unusual book about finding love down the arranged marriage route. Funny, wise and moving, it is also a tribute to the fabulous power of female friendship.' Jaishree Misra, author of Secrets and Lies and Secrets and Sins 'A lot of fun … there's a great deal of enjoyment to be had reading this tale!' Shelina Janmohamed
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaqi Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2013
    ISBN9780863567162
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    Randa Abdel-Fattah

    RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH is the author of the YA novels Does My Head Look Big in This?, Ten Things I Hate About Me, and Where the Streets Had a Name. Her books are published around the world and she regularly gives talks and workshops at schools and writers' festivals. Randa lives in Sydney, Australia, where she works as a litigation lawyer and is also a human rights activist. www.randaabdelfattah.com

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    • 4/5
      Esma is a "28 year old non-drinking virgin who is open to the idea of a blind date organised by family", because she's not looking for a boyfriend, she's looking for a marriage partner who is a Muslim. After another unsuccessful blind date, Esma suggests to her three best friends that they meet regularly to discuss their love-lives, or lack therefore. They're the No Sex in the City club.Her friends have different cultural and religious backgrounds, but they are all educated women who are "active in the community, passionate about politics and human rights, single, living at home and time poor". And while they are not all equally conservative, none of them are interested in casual romantic relationships. (For three of them, this means they're looking for a husband who shares their faith.)No Sex in the City is smart and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and sometimes meandering. Esma is a chatty first-person narrator and her life is mostly conversations: with her family, with her boss, with the men she meets and above all, with her best friends.I was excited that this was a chick-lit about women who come from conservative backgrounds, and that the book showed that, despite being conservative in some respects, Esma and her friends were intelligent, respectful and supportive. Exactly the people you want at your back if you're dealing with sexual harassment or trying to explain to a guy that women should not have to stay in an abusive relationship just because they have a child.Furthermore, I loved that even in the midst of a book about finding "The One", there was a strong emphasis on friendship. I don't think this is as emotionally compelling as the author's YA fiction (perhaps because Esma is quite confident in who she is and what she wants, and so she doesn't grow the way a teenage protagonist might?) but I really enjoyed it.