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Top members (works)eenie17 (3), BookBully (3), shearrob (3), featherbooks (3), bookjones (3), pdebolt (3), purplehena (3), JennyArch (3), nomadreader (3), Citizenjoyce (3), devious_dantes (3), davidabrams (3), whitreidtan (3), andrealibrarian (3) — more Recently addedTatelbaum (1), lacenaire (1), jennks (1), Yasmine_Rose (1), gregsanchez (1), rachbxl (1), bucketyell (1), RapidCityPubLib (1), debbyallen (1) Member favoritesNell Freudenberger has 1 media appearance. Charlie Rose Tomorrow - Nell Freudenberger Nell FreudenbergerNell Freudenberger is a writer who lives in New York City. Her first book, a story collection entitled Lucky Girls, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2003 and won the PEN/Malamud Award. In 2006 she wrote her first novel, ?The Dissident.? Nell graduated from Harvard and has traveled extensively in Asia. Her travel writing has been published in Travel + Leisure and The Telegraph Magazine. She has written book reviews for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue and The Nation (timspalding)… (more) Nell Freudenberger has 2 past events. (show)  Nell Freudenberger-"The Newlyweds" Award-winning author Nell Freudenberger will be at Warwick's on Monday, June 4th at 7:30pm to discuss and sign her novel The newlyweds. A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America’s most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals, that takes us from the backyards of America to the back alleys and villages of Bangladesh.
In The newlyweds, we follow the story of Amina Mazid, who at age twenty-four moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is an arranged marriage for the twenty-first century: Amina is wooed by—and woos—George Stillman online.
For Amina, George offers a chance for a new life and a different kind of happiness than she might find back home. For George, Amina is a woman who doesn’t play games. But each of them is hiding something: someone from the past they thought they could leave behind. It is only when they put an ocean between them—and Amina returns to Bangladesh—that she and George find out if their secrets will tear them apart, or if they can build a future together.
The newlyweds is a surprising, suspenseful story about the exhilarations—and real-life complications—of getting, and staying, married. It stretches across continents, generations, and plains of emotion. What has always set Nell Freudenberger apart is the sly, gimlet eye she turns on collisions of all kinds—sexual, cultural, familial. With The newlyweds, she has found her perfect subject for that vision, and characters to match. She reveals Amina’s heart and mind, capturing both her new American reality and the home she cannot forget, with seamless authenticity, empathy, and grace. At once revelatory and affecting, The newlyweds is a stunning achievement.
Check out the Washington Post's review of The newlyweds here.
Location: Street: 7812 Girard Ave City: La Jolla, Province: California Postal Code: 92037 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Nell Freudenberger Wednesday, May 2, 7:30 PM Brooklyn Book Launch: Novelist Nell Freudenberger reads from The newlyweds Wine reception to follow The highly acclaimed author of Lucky Girls and The Dissident and winner of the PEN/Malamud and Whiting awards as well as a Guggenheim fellowship, Nell Freudenberger returns to form with her new novel The newlyweds. A story of love, marriage, secrets, and betrayals that takes us from the backyards of America to the villages of Bangladesh, the novel follows Amina, who moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, to marry George, a seemingly steady, home-owning engineer, who has wooed her online. Freudenberger will read from the novel, which has been praised by authors like Kiran Desai, Ann Patchett, and Gary Shteyngart, who calls The newlyweds "one of the most believable love stories of our young century". A wine reception will follow the reading.
Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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