Rajaa Alsanea

This is my first read for 2019, even though I am in the middle of two other books. Well, today I was in the mood for a chick lit book, went to my TBR book looking through the books and The Girls of Riyadh was the one that I thought will be that will fulfill my mood.
I borrowed this book from a co-worker that liked this book. It is a book about what is going behind closed doors of the Saudi houses. It is a book that takes out the dirty laundry that not everyone is happy to expose it. This is an interesting concept about a culture that I didn’t know anything about. You hear different things, but you don’t know if it is true or false.
I liked the idea of the way the story is told as a new-age epistolary with the mail before blogging was a thing. The author had to have a lot of courage to write a book like that.
In this book, you learn about the truth about friendship, how the tribal costumes are part of Saudi-Arabia even though there are a lot of people going abroad to study, but is very hard to change the way of life and costumes once return back.
Love is a hard thing among young Saudis. You see during the story of the different plot lines of the four friends.
If you want a different kind of chick-lit, and finding out about a different culture this book for, read it open-mindedly and not with western worlds state of mind.… (more)