I really liked this book, and thought it presented a fascinating situation (a couple who meet on the internet, but he's American, and she's from Bangladesh) and who get married. I loved most of the book, but the last third was a little frustrating, because I wasn't as invested in Amina's parents...
Nell Freudenberger's The Newlyweds, about a Bangladeshi woman who moves to upstate New York as a mail order, was a pleasant surprise for me last year. Freudenberger seemed as comfortable writing about Dhaka as she did about Rochester, and the novel nicely married the adjustment that any immigrant...