TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saani,Rajaa Abd Allaah
AU  - Booth,Marilyn
TI  - Girls of Riyadh
SN  - 9780143113478 (pbk.) :
AV  - PJ7962.A55 B3613 2008
PY  - 2008///, c2007
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Young women
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - Riyadh
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - Islamic countries
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Rich people
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Conflict of generations
KW  - Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
N1  - Originally published: New York : Penguin Press, 2007
N2  - This debut novel, banned in the author?s own country, reveals the social, romantic, and sexual tribulations of four young women from the elite classes of Saudi Arabia. Every week after Friday prayers, the anonymous narrator sends an email to the female subscribers of her online chat group. In fifty such emails over the course of a year, we witness the tragicomic reality of four university students negotiating their love lives, their professional success, and their rebellions, large and small, against their cultural traditions. The world these women inhabit is a modern one that contains "Sex and the City," dating, and sneaking out of their parents? houses, and all this causes the girls to collide endlessly with ancient customs. The never-ending cultural conflicts underscore the tumult of being an educated modern woman growing up in the 21st century amid a culture firmly rooted in an ancient way of life.--From publisher description
ER  -