This book is the story of Tala struggling to find the courage to be herself and choosing love over family pressure to follow the conventional path. While her sister is one of those snarky, dime dropping, back stabbing, doing it for your own good little sneak, and a hypocrite as well her husband Kareem is a good match for her, neither of them exhibit any integrity in the movie, or the book. Also check out all the other best-selling books and dvds by Shamim Sarif. Tala's chain smoking mother comes across as almost a comic book, nighttime soap opera (like our mothers used to watch) villain. Leyla is Indian and though her parents, her mother in particular, aren't enthusiastic about their daughter being gay they are much less over the top than Tala's Jordanian family in their opposition to this relationship. Listening to this book I now understand the movie a little better than I did at the time. I saw this movie a few years ago and liked it hey what gay woman wouldn't like watching Lisa Ray kissing another beautiful woman and Sheetal Sheth it totally stunning.
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