Yasmin Ghorami is a doctor living in London who's engaged to her colleague Joe. While planning her wedding, she must navigate the differences in culture between her Indian family and his white one (especially his feminist mother). She must also work to find her own identity amidst a structured life of familial expectation and a family teeming with secrets.

Yasmin is complex--she's a mix of frustrating and commendable characteristics, which make her especially real. The people in her orbit--Joe, Joe's feminist mother Harriet, her parents, her brother and colleagues--are also vividly rendered. This engaging novel offers sharp social commentary, while also presenting a complex female character whose struggle to find her voice and true self is all too real.

With a deft and comedic hand, Ali explores themes of sex, marriage, love, racism, and identity--and the result is this funny, fresh, and engaging contemporary novel.