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Unmarriageable

Author: SONIAH KAMAL
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ISBN: 9781984817402
Format: Paperback
Published: January 2099
Published By: Random House Australia
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In this retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry-until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor in the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won't make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and start having children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire them to dream of more. When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for eligible-and rich-bachelors, certain that their luck is about to change. On the first night of the festivities, Alys's lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of one of the most eligible bachelors. But his friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her, and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. But as the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal-and Alys begins to realize that Darsee's brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance.In this retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry-until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor in the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of her students won't make it to graduation before dropping out to marry and start having children, Alys teaches them about Jane Austen and her other literary heroes and hopes to inspire them to dream of more. When an invitation arrives to the biggest wedding their small town has seen in years, Mrs. Binat excitedly sets to work preparing her daughters to fish for eligible-and rich-bachelors, certain that their luck is about to change. On the first night of the festivities, Alys's lovely older sister, Jena, catches the eye of one of the most eligible bachelors. But his friend Valentine Darsee is clearly unimpressed by the Binat family. Alys accidentally overhears his unflattering assessment of her, and quickly dismisses him and his snobbish ways. But as the days of lavish wedding parties unfold, the Binats wait breathlessly to see if Jena will land a proposal-and Alys begins to realize that Darsee's brusque manner may be hiding a very different man from the one she saw at first glance.
SONIAH KAMAL is a Pushcart Prize nominated essayist and fiction writer. Her debut novel An Isolated Incident was a finalist for the Townsend Award for Fiction and the KLF French Fiction Prize. Soniah's TEDx talk, Redreaming Your Dream, is about regrets, second chances and redemption. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times,The Guardian, Catapult, The Normal School, The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Missing Slate, BuzzFeed, The James Dickey Review, Scroll.in, Literary Hub and has been widely anthologized. Soniah's short story Fossils, judged by Claudia Rankine, won the Agnes Scott 2017 Festival Award for Fiction. Her short stories and essays have been short listed for awards including the Sequestrum Editor's Reprint Award and the Payton James Freeman Prize. She was awarded the Paul Bowles Fiction Fellowship from Georgia State University where she worked as Assistant Fiction Editor for the literary publication Five Points- A Journal of Literature and Arts. Soniah was born in Pakistan, grew up in England and Saudi Arabia and currently resides in Johns Creek, GA.
ISBN: 9781984817402
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Format: Paperback
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Published Date: 01-Jan-2099
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Publisher: Random House Australia

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