Love Marriage by V.V. Ganeshananthan [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Sri Lankan American
In Yalini's globe-scattered Sri Lankan family are two kinds of marriage: the Arranged Marriage that the obedient adhere to and Love Marriage which Yalini's newly immigrant parents fell into shortly after arrival in their adopted country....
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