(Un-)Arranged Marriage

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(Un-)Arranged Marriage
Bali Rai

An easy read navigating the diffuculties of migration and growing up trapped between two cultures. Manjit is a teenage boy living in Leicester (England), brought up by strict Punbjabi parents. Dissappointed by Manny’s grades and behavior, his parents arrange for him to be married in India: They take him there and then return to England without him.

· · 2001

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Rai, Bali. (Un)Arranged Marriage. Penguin, 2018. 320 pp., ISBN 9780241343067

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