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    The Marriage Clock: A Novel
    The Marriage Clock: A Novel
    The Marriage Clock: A Novel
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Marriage Clock: A Novel

    Written by Zara Raheem

    Narrated by Ariana Delawari

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    Perfect for fans of Sonali Dev and Soniah Kamal.  A young woman must find herself a husband in three months...otherwise, her parents will matchmake one for her!

    To Leila Abid’s traditional Indian parents, finding a husband is as easy as match, meet, marry.   Yes, she wants to marry, but after 26 years of singledom, even Leila is starting to get nervous. And to make matters worse, her parents are panicking, the neighbors are talking, and she’s wondering, are her expectations just too high?

    But for Leila, a marriage of arrangement clashes with her lifelong dreams of a Bollywood romance, where real love happens before marriage, not the other way around. And after 26 years of singledom, even Leila is getting nervous. So she decides it’s time to stop dreaming and start dating.

    It’s an impossible mission of satisfying her parents’ expectations, while also fulfilling her own western ideals of love. But after a series of speed dates, blind dates, online dates and even ambush dates, the sparks just don’t fly! Now, with the marriage clock ticking, and her 3-month deadline looming in the horizon, Leila must face the consequences of what might happen if she doesn’t find “the one…”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJul 23, 2019
    ISBN9780062934598
    Author

    Zara Raheem

    Zara Raheem received her MFA from California State University, Long Beach. She is the recipient of the James I. Murashige Jr. Memorial award in fiction and was selected as one of 2019’s Harriet Williams Emerging Writers. She resides in Southern California where she teaches English and creative writing. The Marriage Clock is her first novel.

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    • 3/5
      While I enjoyed the way the author described the arranged marriage phenomenon, difficulties with dealing with well-meaning but oh so meddling parents and pressure to settle down as well as how hardships of having to match or expectations with the harsh reality all while having to deal with community pressure and her view on subjects such as colorism I disliked the characters immaturity, her contradictory behavior and her being overall judgmental and whiny. Anyway, it was more than what I would expect from a debut novel and the idea behind it all was great, job well done.

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    • 4/5
      I love this story! I love that it doesn't take the ending I expected and I love how the main character grows throughout the story. Great first read for 2020!
    • 5/5
      Quirky,cute,and fun! I loved this book. I can't wait to hear more from the author
    • 3/5
      Ugggh! The recording seems to jump bc around and skip. Then the end of the book just cuts off. I have no idea wfat her final decision was. So annoying!!!!!