{"id":38223,"date":"2024-03-05T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38223"},"modified":"2024-03-05T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:00:07","slug":"review-of-that-can-be-arranged-by-huda-fahmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38223","title":{"rendered":"Review of That Can Be Arranged, by Huda Fahmy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/that_can_be_arranged_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/that_can_be_arranged_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38241\" \/><\/a><em>That Can Be Arranged<\/p>\n<p>A Muslim Love Story<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Huda Fahmy<\/p>\n<p>Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2020.  175 pages.<br \/>\nReview written August 10, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n<p><em>That Can Be Arranged<\/em> is a sweet and funny graphic memoir about how the author found love \u2013 and an arranged marriage \u2013 at the ripe old age of 25.<\/p>\n<p>She clears up several myths about Muslim culture and arranged marriages in general.  She makes some funny observations about the men she encountered before she found her future husband, including some her father ruled out \u2013 which turned out to be a very good thing.<\/p>\n<p>This is a quick read, and it has just the right dose of humor.  We\u2019ve got a universal quest \u2013 to find love \u2013 and it\u2019s fun to see the things that were the same \u2013 and different \u2013 for a modern American girl from a Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>You can tell by the cover that things end happily for Huda, and the reader will cheer.  Or perhaps perform zagharit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsmcmeel.com\/\">andrewsmcmeel.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1524856223\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>*Note*  To try to catch up on posting reviews, I&#8217;m posting the oldest reviews I&#8217;ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website.  They&#8217;re still good books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Can Be Arranged A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2020. 175 pages. Review written August 10, 2020, from a library book That Can Be Arranged is a sweet and funny graphic memoir about how the author found love \u2013 and an arranged marriage \u2013 at the ripe old age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-memoir","category-nonfiction-review","category-true-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43352,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38223\/revisions\/43352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}