5/24/2023 0 Comments Courting Samira by Amal Awad![]() ![]() The story is a typical chick-lit plot in many ways: a girl in her late twenties meets a boy, etc., but the twist is that this girl, Samira, meets boy after boy after boy (“doorknockers”) as they visit her home as potential suitors in a culture that views marriage as a relationship between two families, rather than solely between the individuals who, if the match is successful, will spend the rest of their lives together. I enjoyed the novel, after I had gotten used to the author’s informal writing style that uses periods (and thus creates sentence fragments) where I am more accustomed to seeing commas, semi-colons, or em dashes (several authors I’ve read recently seem to do this). I thought those reasons were as good as any to purchase the book. It caught my eye immediately, as I share my first name with the author and one of my daughters shares her first name with the protagonist. I purchased this book on a whim because it was a semi-finalist in the General Fiction category for Amazon’s Breakthrough Novel Award. ![]() Amal Awad’s debut novel, Courting Samira, centers on a Jane Austen-style love-triangle set in a contemporary Arab-Australian community where business-like arranged marriages are still the norm. ![]()
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