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Starred Review on February 14, 2025 | Fiction
DEBUT Like Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Rahmani's novel adapts and employs esoteric academic theoretical concepts in a story that explores the margins of sexuality, gender, racial identity, and much more. It follows an Iranian and Indian American scholar's decision to marry rich (with a quipping reference to that oft-repeated opening line of Pride and Prejudice) by setting an assignment for herself to go on 100 dates by August 17. The story t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

