Through the 500-plus pages, Dr Yasmin Ghorami, a junior doctor in London, and the reader will embark on a journey of revelation, where premises are shattered, and caricatures become fully embodied people. We might believe that we know our parents, our to-be spouses, our partners, but this “knowing” is based on assumptions rather than facts. Love Marriage also reminds us that nothing is quite as it seems. Her previous novel Untold Story (2011) asked what would have happened if Princess Diana had not died in a car accident but had disappeared of her own accord to live an anonymous life. Ali is best known for Brick Lane (2003), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her latest novel, Love Marriage (Virago 512 pages ₹ 899) similarly deals with the real and the serious, but drizzles some merriment through it. While transcribing an interview with the author of five books, I note how chunks of weighty text are interspersed with chuckles. MONICA ALI EASILY dissolves into laughter.
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