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The Race to Find the Perfect Husband

In Zara Raheem’s fresh debut novel, The Marriage Clock (William Morrow), a Muslim-American woman races to find the man of her dreams as her traditional Indian parents threaten to arrange the marriage for her. The truth? Leila Abid would like to have someone else’s life. As a child, she envisioned…
Anne Eliot Feldman
July 23, 2019
Fiction

Sisters’ Vanishing Act Conjures Fears in Post-Soviet Era

In Julia Phillips' affecting debut novel Disappearing Earth (Knopf), two sisters, ages eleven and eight, go missing one afternoon in a once-cloistered town at the northeastern edge of Russia. The effects of their disappearance play out for the following year among residents in this community, dredging up fears especially among…
Jessica McEntee
May 14, 2019