Brick Lane delivers the compelling story of young Bangladeshi Nazneen in an arranged marriage to Chanu Ahmed. Monica Ali quietly creates the stage of Nazneen’s marriage to the elder man who brings her to London with the seclusion of an ethnically centered Bangladeshi community in the heart of the city. The novel follows her transition from a young hesitant girl in a new culture to being an independent woman with the strength to bend fate to her will.
