Unmarriageable by Sonia Kamal
Unmarriageable by @soniahkamal ⠀⠀
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Ratings (out of 5)
Chemistry: 💥💥💥💥
Heat: 🔥
Humor: 🤗🤗🤗🤗
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookish woman has a favorite Austen. Mine is Northanger Abbey. Nevertheless, when I saw Soniah Kamal’s novel floating around Bookstagram, I grabbed it. And I was NOT disappointed.
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There’s a note in the back of Unmarriageable from the author about how, reading and re-reading P&P, Elizabeth Bennet and all the other characters ceased to be English and became Pakistani. And this, friends, shows. This isn’t a cynical retelling or even one born of a kooky idea. Unmarrigeable is as much a commentary on the Pakistani marriage market, the pressures put on girls and women to be “marriageable” and the way they’re faulted if they don’t toe the line. It’s also, as Austen’s was, a loving tribute to the strong undercurrents of family, sisterhood, friendship, respect, and love that exist in the midst of that society.
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On top of all this, Kamal accomplishes the impressive feat of writing a P&P retelling within a universe where Austen not only exists but the main character, Alysba Binat, teaches Austen’s novels to her high school English class. It shouldn’t work. And yet it does. It works beautifully. It works perfectly.
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Honestly I could rave about this book for days but Instagram has a character limit so I’ll quickly point out my favorite things: Sherry/Charlotte and Alys/Elizabeth’s friendship is honest and written from the heart. Qitty/Kitty is no longer just a sidekick for Lady/Lydia but her own amazing, interesting, spirited woman. Annie/Anne is no longer a blank, sickly character but a woman with a chronic illness who has depth and opinions about how people like her are portrayed (a personal thank you for that one, Ms. Kamal, from my heart.)
Elizabeth Bennet has been an aspirational/inspirational character for spirited girls for two centuries. We all see something of ourselves in the way she traipses, muddy and disheveled, across the fields to visit her sister. Alys Binat is an updated Lizzie in every way, and with the full force of the last two centuries of culture behind her—what has changed, what hasn’t—and she completely conquered my heart.
Kiss & Tell: Unmarriageable is ALMOST as chaste as the original but while there aren’t any sexy times the characters DO talk about sex, masturbation, and the ridiculous expectations put on women across time and space.
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