Love Comes Later by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar - Starting August 4th 2016

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When newlywed Abdulla loses his wife and unborn child in a car accident, the world seems to crumble beneath his feet. Thrust back into living in the family compound, he goes through the motions—work, eat, sleep, repeat. Blaming himself for their deaths, he decides to never marry again but knows that culturally, this is not an option. Three years later, he’s faced with an arranged marriage to his cousin Hind, whom he hasn’t seen in years. Hard-pressed to find a way out, he consents to a yearlong engagement and tries to find a way to end it. What he doesn’t count on, and is unaware of, is Hind’s own reluctance to marry.

Longing for independence, she insists on being allowed to complete a master’s degree in England, a condition Abdulla readily accepts. When she finds an unlikely friend in Indian-American Sangita, she starts down a path that will ultimately place her future in jeopardy.

The greatest success of Rajakumar’s novel is the emotional journey the reader takes via her rich characters. One cannot help but feel the pressure of the culturally mandated marriage set before Hind and Abdulla. He’s not a real Muslim man if he remains single, and she will never be allowed freedoms without the bondage of a potentially loveless marriage. It’s an impossible situation dictated by a culture that they still deeply respect.

Rajakumar pulls back the veil on life in Qatar to reveal a glimpse of Muslim life rarely seen by Westerners.

"...a deliciously tangled plot and insight into life on the Persian Gulf."
Kirkus Review

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This will also be a nice treat. Learning other people's customs.

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(view spoiler)[I don't like it...
I love arranged marriage books but they are not going to end up with each other it's obvious and I do not like it AT ALL!! >.< (hide spoiler)]

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(view spoiler)[Hind did nothing wrong, maybe in her tradition but she did not cheat on him and kiss him, O hate Sangita I did not like her from the first second, she lives on Hind's allowance we might say and she started to cling to Abdulah like what the (hide spoiler)]hell

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(view spoiler)[Really? She came after him to live and marry the finance of her best friend, at whose house she has lived for free??? What an ungrateful backstabber, knowing what it will do to Hind... (hide spoiler)]

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(view spoiler)[This was horrible... For real... Sangita or whatever her name was was a backstabber and Hind just went to another country like what the hell she didn't through herself at other man she just went to do a community job a good deed and Abdula called HER the bitch??? Like woaaah??? The botch was the one you were marrying. Be a man and cancel the marriage yourself why should she do it?? It was awful (hide spoiler)]

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I am going to read this. I'm almost done with one and then I'm starting.