This is a refreshing novel about four girlfriends and their journey for happiness, success and self worth. The four friends talk about love(lost and found) and their dreams about success. What makes this book interesting is:
1. it is set in Riyad and the cultural traditions and norms give the story a charm and Riyad, just by default, changes the plot
and
2. The novel is written in email installments. the author also comments on the emails and there is a subplot concerning email responses to the author's ongoing novel. The author will send one installment per week and get responses from the readers. Sometimes she will post some of the responses and comment on them.

"Girls of Riyadh" is a fun, easy read that gives you a glimpse into the world of four Saudi girls. I think the takeaway from this novel is that girls are girls anywhere--be they Saudi or American, Muslim or Christian. We all long for love and happiness. We all go through heartbreak. We all have societal conventions and expectations to uphold, even those of us in the West. And don't worry, there's a happy ending for many of the girls.

Buy this book for a fun summer read which just might humanize Saudi and Muslim girls in your eyes just a bit. Which isn't a bad thing, BTW. ;)

It's hardly Sex and the City, but by Saudi standards The Girls of Riyadh is a bombshell. The fictional tale of the loves, dreams and disappointments of four young women in the capital has, not surprisingly, drawn criticism in a country where women are not supposed to date or have a love life until married. More striking, however, is the degree of support being voiced for 24-year-old author Rajaa al-Sanie and her first novel. In the novel, Sadeem's husband divorces her because she's too sexually bold for his liking. Qamra discovers soon after her wedding that her husband is in love with a Japanese woman. Mashael's boyfriend cannot marry her because her mother is American. Only Lamis finds true and lasting love. The Girls of Riyadh was published in September in Lebanon, the most liberal of Arab countries, and is going into its third printing. In Saudi Arabia, where the sexes are strictly segregated, authorities haven't decided whether to approve its sale, but pirated editions are circulating in photocopy form. Author Mariam Abdel-Karim al-Bukhari, writing in the newspaper Al Riyadh, said she hasn't read the book but nonetheless believes the title "is hurtful to the girls in our country." She wants al-Sanie to change it, or "issue an apology to the girls of Riyadh." But glowing praise comes from Ghazi al-Qusaibi, a renowned Saudi author who is also the kingdom's labour minister. He calls it "a work that deserves to be read. I expect a lot from this author." Educator Hussah al-Ghanem agrees. "I support her 100 per cent," she said. "People should talk about the positive and negative aspects of their society." Al-Sanie, fresh out of dental school, is a petite brunette who wears an Islamic head scarf, like virtually all Saudi women. She says a few of al-Sanie's friends have cut her off because "They don't want to hurt their marriage prospects by associating with a bold friend." Her biggest supporter is her family. "Before the book was published, I asked Rajaa, `Are you willing to go the extra mile for this?'" said her brother, Ahmed. "She's not married yet, and society doesn't forgive or forget." The book, which isn't available in English, is told in the form of weekly e-mails from a female narrator to Internet subscribers in Saudi Arabia, portrays four women whose stories are based on true-life ones that al-Sanie says she has heard at weddings, in school and at women's gatherings. Many in the Arab world are comparing it to Sex and the City, the TV series about four young women in New York City, though there is so sex in The Girls of Riyadh, only emotions. The novel opens with Qamra marrying Rashed in a lavish ceremony, having already been advised by her ultra-conservative mother not to consummate her marriage on her wedding night lest she be judged "easy." The couple moves to the United States, only for Qamra to discover that Rashed married her to appease his parents, who wouldn't let him marry his real love, a Japanese woman. Rashed soon divorces Qamra and sends her home pregnant. To protect its reputation, her family bans her from returning to college or going out much with her girlfriends. Meanwhile, Sadeem sleeps with Walid after their marriage contract is signed but before she moves in with him. Shocked at her "boldness" and interest in sex, Walid divorces her. She develops a phone relationship with a Saudi man and would like him for a husband, but being a divorcee makes that impossible and she ends up marrying a cousin. Mashael is the half-American who once broke the ban against women driving by dressing as a man, renting a car and driving her girlfriends around the city. She and her boyfriend, Faisal, meet at a mall and fall in love but don't marry because his mother doesn't want a half-American for a daughter-in-law. And finally there's Lamis, who marries Nizar and finds happiness because unlike the other three women, she has let her head govern her heart and made sure he is right for her. Al-Sanie says she wrote the book to highlight issues that society denies. "I didn't distort the country's reputation. I wrote about humanity here," she said. "I wanted to show that both men and women are victims of society." Al-Sanie says that among many readers who have e-mailed her is a man who got the book from his divorced daughter. "He told me it made him cry and made him realize what women go through," she said. "He decided that his daughter will not live the traditional life of a divorcee."

Who among those of us in the West would have thought that four women in Saudi Arabia could go through so many of the same things that we do. Dreaming of the right guy, heartbreak and romance, professional aspirations. It's all in this extremely well written and highly enjoyable first book by a young dental student named Rajaa Alsanea. Written in the form of a weekly email to a listserv group, we become highly acquainted with this foursome, childhood friends from the upper class of Riyadh. Each woman is unique, and you'll soon become friends with each of them.

Thank you, Rajaa, for your ability to transform women whom we often perceive as merely burka-bound beings into real human, feeling women! Hopefully, there will be time within your professional demands to either revisit these same women's lives, or delight us with a completely new story. But please keep writing!

I just finished a marathon of new novels from the "the Middle East" and finished up with this bonbon, a sweet dessert to follow the grim, rich, complex, high faluting Wolves of the Crescent Moon, and Snow, the tragic epic of A Thousand Splendid Suns,and so on. Coming down off of these fine "socially responsible" books, which tackle poverty and class, identity, good vs evil, faith, massive cultural schisms, the acute sufferings of average women, along with the other usual big existential questions was like coming down off Conrad, Dickens, Bronte, Atwood and Hardy to relax and enjoy an unpreachy Jane Austen.
"Girls" is a narrow often comic, fluffy - and yet somewhat moving - "chick litty" story of the love lives of the wealthy and relatively coddled. Okay, it's "light", but it has its place in literature and I have deep admiration and respect for the courage of the author to write it (it is censored in Saudi Arabia and the author has to put up with severe and probably scary condemnation by those who think a woman's inner private life should not ever be revealed). No, of course there are not graphic sex scenes so it might make you impatient, but remember to even allude in writing to the fact that men and women have sex or that a boy might be gay is forbidden.
. And I kept thinking (as a western reader who knows a lot of Saudi women and men but only as visitors to the USA), "you go, girl! Blow away the stereotypes!". To educate the ignorant world about the contemporary inner lives and daily life-truths of Saudi women was a goal of the author, as she writes in her forward. I think she succeeds within the confines of her novel in showing the diverse personalities, neuroses, dreams and fears of real women, in that range of the young, educated, hip and rich, rich rich.
I must confess, however, that if I were Saudi and read this I would be bored, and if it were the same women but Americans and living say, in Seattle or Manhattan I'd be bored by their stories, just as I yawned at Sex in the City. So...that means the charm of this novel, for me, was learning and opening my mind about culture, rather than its literary merits. (I don't read "chick lit" normally, not because I am misogynist, but..well I go for the deep stuff). I know this gifted, brave author is perfectly capably of writing in deeper genres and could write thrillers and so on, if she chooses.
A few of my favorite scenes: Men naughtily rushing into the women's section of a wedding before it is allowed, frantically "recording female faces and bodies on the hard drives of their memory banks" as sexily clad women scramble to cover themselves with any kind of cloth available - including a table cloth. Or the scenes aboard jets on their way to Europe or America, with Saudi women (and men) rushing to the bathrooms the second they have left the boundaries of the kingdom to change into western attire (and in reverse, on the way home). As my husband says, "it's like a job interview!". And another scene, of a tender-hearted gentle male lover who respects and adores women (or at least, the one he is in love with). And I love the ravishing romantic Arab poetry before each chapter.
I put "Girls" in the ranks with Zaatar Days, Henna Nights: Adventures, Dreams, and Destinations Across the Middle East, as a good book written from the authentic, female perspective, and an entertaining cheery way to dash expectations and misconceptions about the living modern women - and men - of the Middle East.
And now, after the breather, back to the grim high brow tragedies.
~ by Lesley Thomas, author of arctic novel Flight of the Goose

I read the first 50 pages or so and then started skimming. The translation was frequently awkward and I found it impossible to connect with, or maintain an interest in, the characters. The book was also boring and centered around the usual blah-blah that apparently should interest all women: cheating, dishonest men, bad marriages, betrayals and conniving family.

As I am already quite familiar with Arab culture, I didn't pick up the book to *GASP* over revealing discoveries about the lives of Saudi vs. Western women. My main goal was diversion, and this book failed.

glory-shines! soul-blossom! what splendo-bliss euphoriated me, deluged me, smote me with scarlet as i plunged amid this books mad delecto! i immersed myself in its characters, swarmed amid its fiber and riled as i ran through its pages. i wept jail-tears when waliid broke his engagement to sadeem, i vexploded in razor-rage when i learned that faisal's family barred michelle's marriage to him, i spit venom when i read that gamarah had been cheated on, rogued, her love-life torn, her soul-bliss shattered, all the horror-freaks arising from the knife-ocean to ransack her blithe in shred. i shrunk into the shade-forest as i reminded myself that love evades us, that love taunts us, that true love is as rare as those blithe-diamonds amidst desert, those sparklo-falls radiating in astonishmento, that cloud-wonder wholly effecting the reason.

this is a delightful book. i found out about it by wandering through websites on middle east topics and i thought that this would a great book to help out with my arabic studies. to my astonishment the english version is radically different from the arabic version. and i read somewhere that the english translator really didn't do anything, but that rajaa herself did almost all of the work. whole paragraphs in the arabic version are omitted in the english. in any case this is still a delightful read. this book took tremendous courage to write as i'm sure rajaa feared greatly the reprisal that such a bold move might have on saudi society. this is also a wholly honest book. rajaa doesn't sugar-coat reality and reminds us just how rare true love is. here's to you, rajaa, may true love find you.

author of Lorelei Pursued,
Wrestles with God

girls of riyadh is a book that most women can relate to. even though i am american, i have felt the pain and saddness that the girls go through. in the end your friends are the ones that help you pick yourself up, dust your self off and go on living. i read the book in one afternoon, could not put it down.

Save for the last 3 chapters, Girls of Riyadh by Raja Alsanea was a huge let down. Sensationalized and immature, the author is clearly looking to cash in on the western stereotypes of the east. The 4 female protagonists act in the most predictable, girly-movie way.
The story did nothing for me, didn't enlighten me to the supposedly hidden side of the Arab way of life and society, as the author promised in many interviews. The author assumes this self-important, holier-than-thou tone that got so annoying that after the first few chapters I skipped the introductory passage where she addresses the readers. It's only towards the very end that the characters turn fleshy. You get a slight glimpse into something profound but it lingers below the surface, at best.
The author lacks the craft to tap into the real issues, she states them out loud rather than hint at them and allow the reader arrive at his/her own conclusion, and this is where the book falls short.
There are loads of better books out there for those with a genuine interest in gaining an insight into the lives of people living in Islamic societies.

Save for the last 3 chapters, Girls of Riyadh by Raja Alsanea was a huge let down. Sensationalized and immature, the author is clearly looking to cash in on the western stereotypes of the east. The 4 female protagonists act in the most predictable, girly-movie way.
The story did nothing for me, didn't enlighten me to the supposedly hidden side of the Arab way of life and society, as the author promised in many interviews. The author assumes this self-important, holier-than-thou tone that got so annoying that after the first few chapters I skipped the introductory passage where she addresses the readers. It's only towards the very end that the characters turn fleshy. You get a slight glimpse into something profound but it lingers below the surface, at best.
The author lacks the craft to tap into the real issues, she states them out loud rather than hint at them and allow the reader arrive at his/her own conclusion, and this is where the book falls short.
There are loads of better books out there for those with a genuine interest in gaining an insight into the lives of people living in Islamic societies.

When I saw Girls of Riyadh at the bookstore, I was instantly drawn to the pretty pink and gold beaded design of the cover. Although this book supposedly caused an uproar in Saudi Arabia, it is fairly tame by Western standards. I found the translation from Arabic to English to be a little awkward, but the four girls in the book are all sweet, likeable characters and it was easy to become immersed in their individual stories of marriage and romance. If you're interested in a light read about the dating culture of wealthy Arabs, I would recommend this book.

It was Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own who made the observation that writing untainted by the bitterness and anger that accompanies unfair circumstances is the best way to write pure and unthwarted literature--thus best revealing that same circumstance. This was in reference to the enormous success of female authors such as Jane Austen and Aphra Behn because there is no detectable resentment in their writing as a result of the oppression they experienced as female writers during their lifetimes.
On the same token, Rajaa Al-Sanea recounts the lives of these four Saudi girls of the upper class with similar simplicity, so that the reader is able to enjoy the narrative. On the one hand, most reviewers seem appalled by the condition of Saudi women despite the fact that women do not have equal rights in most of their own countries. Refreshingly, Dr. Al-Sanea's focus is not bemoaning women's status, but narrates from a twice-removed perspective: through the anonymous narrator who recounts the feelings of her protagonists. And in this way, the reader is struck by the constraints placed upon these women.
Al-Sanea has been criticized for representing only a small percentage of Saudi women since her characters are of the upper class, but it should be noted that this is an accurate representation of their lives and that by writing about the more privileged and their grievances, Al-Sanea has paved the way for more literature--perhaps by herself!--to be written about the condition of Saudi women in other classes, in Bedouin tribes, in Buraydah, Jeddah, Ha'il and a whole host of situations and locations.
The mere style of this book should be reassuring for an audience horrified by what they have read--the condition of the lives of Saudi women, the way these four girls conduct themselves, etc. The internet, albeit censored, is one of the channels that women can express themselves on a level more equal than pre-Internet times permitted. And I believe that to be another point in the story, women in Saudi Arabia are not allowing themselves to be helpless, they are using accessible forums to express themselves. It happens to be a part of reality that upper-classes everywhere have a louder voice. When literacy was unique to men of the privileged class and religious men, which perspective of history are we receiving? The very fact that this book has had such success even in Saudi Arabia (it is not even censored), despite the fact that the author is a talented female, reveals the changes going on within the kingdom. This book is yet another stepping stone towards awareness of the on-goings in this society closed to foreigners and I applaud the author for her initiative.
Being a Saudi (Riyadh) born-and-raised American female (and no, my family was not affiliated in any way with the military or oil), I can say I was honestly thrilled and delighted by this book that sent me reminiscing for a `simpler' time in my own life. All in all, this was a book that I could relate to and I have a tremendous amount of respect for an author who can relate this story in terms that people who have not experienced Saudi lifestyle can appreciate; not to mention the difficulties in translating from Arabic to English.
This is an essential read for people wanting to better understand the dynamics of this unique society.

When I saw Girls of Riyadh, I was quite excited as I thought this book would explore the lives of women in Saudi Arabia in detail. Unfortunately, though the book is pleasing enough in exploring its subject matter, it reads more like chick lit, and is pretty light despite some of the deeper issues it seemingly portrays.

Told as a series of events that are portrayed blog-style, the narrator is an anonymous Saudi woman who offers some light comments before narrating the exploits of each of her central characters, comprising of four young Saudi women, i.e. Gamrah, Sadeem,Lamees and Michelle, all of whom belong to the upper cusp ofSaudi society, are privileged and well-bred, lacking only the total freedom enjoyed by their counterparts in the Western world.

Gamrah is the earliest to be married off, at 20, and envisions for herself a blissful married life beside a handsome young man Rashid. Unfortunately, her marriage turns into a trial and results in heartache as she discovers Rashid doesn't love her. Gamrah is eventually forced to return to her family, and though it's Rashid that breaks the marriage, it is sad to see that the woman is held responsible for the failure of the marriage, and Gamrah is forced to lead a life of seclusion for a while.

Sadeem is the optimist who believes love conquers all, yet she too finds that being a young woman in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia brings with it many strictures and curtailment of personal freedom , even in the choice of whom one loves. She is married [by contract] to a young man Waleed who epitomises all that she desires in a man, yet he breaks her heart. She finds another love in a sophisticated older man, Firas, yet that relationship too brings her much heartache, leading her to question her choice in men, not realising its the typical make-up of a Saudi male [as alluded to by the narrator] that causes them to hold their women to strict moral values despite possessing many shortcomings themselves.

Lamees is a medical student who also faces problems in love and friendship, though she tires to remain true to herself, whilst her good friend Michelle finds her background [having an American mother and Saudi father] poses a threat to her finding happiness with her Saudi love, Faisal.

Though the themes of finding and losing love is universal, it is unique in that these stories of Gamrah, Sadeem, Lamees and Michelle provide us with a glimpse into not only the lives of rich, privileged Saudi women, but more significantly, the strict norms and age-old traditions that regulates their code of conduct as well as curtails their personal freedom. It gives us insight into the oppressive lives led by Saudi women,though the issue is not explored in depth.

I found this to be a pleasing and easy read, like most chick-lit, and wished it had more depth. If you are looking for something that has more bite to it, I would recommend Jean Sassoon's "Princess" and "Daughters of Arabia" which are compelling reads that focus on the abuses suffered by women in Saudi Arabia.

"Girls of Riyadh" by Rajaa Alsanea focused on the love lives of four young women in Saudi Arabia. It provides a glimpse of modern day dating in Saudi Arabia where women struggle to choose their marriage partners and at the same time, they have to deal with traditional values of the society. The book reads like "Sex and the City" as the four women muddled through society looking for love.

This was an interesting for me as it provides fascinating details of how it would be like to live in Saudi Arabia as a female looking for love. The characters were vividly described and the author took the time to illustrate the struggles/conflicts that they faced. However, I still do not understand the need of a narrator in the story who sent emails to this list describing the love sagas of these women. Overall, this was an average read for me.

Girls of Riyadh is filled with characters readers will love, hate, celebrate, and condemn - sometimes at the same time. In this delightful story about the adventures four Saudi Arabian girls searching for their places in society, Alsanea proves that despite perceived differences, people around the world have more in common that often acknowledged. It's easy to identify with the Girls of Riyadh and their struggles to find love and create their own lives in this engaging story manages to be serious and fun at the same time.

While this may not represent a large percentage of Saudi women, this taste of what it would be like to live in the Kingdom is enlightening and worth taking a look. The veil provokes so many questions for Westerns; however, the plight of the women does not begin or end with this garment. This book and its short snipets allow for easy reading, yet at the same time provide some insight for what obstacles women would face. I suggest it, even if it does nothing, but make you reflect on the lives of women around you.

At first, the book's cover got my attention in Barnes and Noble store. It was very ornate and it reminded me the Kyrgyz design of my paternal grandmother's favourite dress...

This story provides an in-depth life analysis of the four upper class girls in Riyadh. I do realize that some parts of the story maybe slightly exaggerated and embellished. However, I do believe that the vast majority of the happenings represent real life stories of some of the Saudi women and men. The part about Rashid and his wife was pretty interesting whilst I knew someone who dated a man from that region and who had been in somewhat similar situation...The guy went for summer break home where he got married to his cousin, came back and carried on as if nothing happened. In contrast with Rashid's mistress, the girl I knew was very honorable so she broke up out of simple respect to the man's wife. Pleadings, emails, text messages and voice mails didn't help.

Forgive my ignorance, but having a western mind - I always mistakenly thought that the Saudi women are uneducated, dull and highly dependent on men regardless of their status. This book was an eye opener and Rajaa did a wonderful insightful job by refuting my generalized belief. This is the first book I read by an Arabic author.

At first, the book's cover got my attention in Barnes and Noble store. It was very ornate and it reminded me the design of my grandmother's favourite dress...

This story provides an in-depth life analysis of the four upper class girls in Riyadh. I do realize that some parts of the story maybe slightly exaggerated and embellished. However, I do believe that the vast majority of the happenings represent real life stories of some of the Saudi women and men. The part about Rashid and his wife was pretty interesting whilst I knew someone who dated a man from that region and who had been in somewhat similar situation...The guy went for summer break home where he got married to his cousin, came back and carried on as if nothing happened. In contrast with Rashid's mistress, the girl I knew was very honorable so she broke up out of simple respect to the man's wife. Pleadings, emails, text messages and voice mails didn't help.

Forgive my ignorance, but having a western mind - I always mistakenly thought that the Saudi women are uneducated, dull and highly dependent on men regardless of their status. This book was an eye opener and Rajaa did a wonderful insightful job by refuting my generalized belief. This is the first book I read by an Arabic author.

I have an interest in modern Arab fiction, so when I saw this Saudi novel was translated and published by a major press I couldn't resist checking it out. Unfortunately, the story is pretty thin gruel and fails to provide a particularly rich or insightful glimpse into the Arab world -- or rather, 99.9% of the Arab world. It revolves around the social life of the rich and pampered young elite of the Saudi kingdom, and the picture it paints is not very pretty. Framed as a kind of online serialization of a roughly six-year span in the lives of four young women of the "velvet class", the story is confined to soap opera antics that could occur among privileged teens in China, India, Canada, or any number of other places.

The four co-protagonists are Sadeem, Gamrah, Michelle and Lamees -- girls of roughly similar backgrounds (although Michelle spent a good deal of her childhood in the West) who become friends in high school. Though they are of varying temperament, they are like teens and young people everywhere, mainly obsessed with the opposite sex. Unfortunately for them, the oppressive social climate of Saudi Arabia makes actual interaction rather problematic. For example: shopping malls operate such that men and women cannot mingle, wooing consists of driving next to a carload of women and holding up signs with one's cell-phone number, and speaking of cell phones -- billing records are scrutinized by family and prospective in-laws to asses the wholesomeness of a prospective bride.

This separation of the sexes leads to a lot of daydreaming and romanticizing among the four women, which in turn leads to some predictably bad relationships. Some are so intent on getting married that they leap into marriage with the first man who comes along, and are then caught in bleak, loveless marriages. Others are so intent on "true love" that they ignore all the warning signs and become emotionally entangled with men who have no intention of marrying them. Many of these predicaments follow the familiar storylines of "love matches" vs. arranged marriages in a supposedly modern society -- a topic that's been more or less done to death by South Asian writers. In the same vein, relationships that cross class lines are pretty much taboo, a theme well-covered in British literature.

Ultimately, it's hard to care for any of these pampered, haute couture-consuming brats when their love lives crash and burn. Lip service is paid to feminism, and that's certainly a valid point to be made in terms of Saudi society, however these four women are awfully superficial messengers.

Over half a century ago Mary McCarthy wrote "The Group," a perceptive and satirical novel on the lives of eight graduates from Vassar. The novel was widely acclaimed, in part for discussing numerous issues that had hitherto been taboo relating to the lives of upper class American women. Ms. McCarthy was applauded for the honesty and realism of her portraits, which covered a spectrum of aspirations, hopes, and in smaller measures, fulfillments.

Ms. Al Sanea's book, "The Girls of Riyadh" is a similar chronicle of the lives of four upper class women in Saudi Arabia. Her style is updated from Ms. McCarthy's time, done in an e-mail format, which can be irritating, glib, or innovative, depending on your perspective. But the essential element is there: an honest, realistic examination of the lives of these women, and the adaptations to cultural norms that they make or defy. And in the end, about the same percentage of the women, American and Saudi, find fulfillment and happiness.

Ms. Sanea makes numerous observations on Saudi society. For example: "Our Saudi society resembles a fruit cocktail of social classes in which no class mixes with another unless absolutely necessary, and then only with the help of a blender!" With this, as well as other comments, I found myself wondering how unique this is to Saudi society. America has far greater egalitarian pretenses, but socially is it not at least as stratified?

There is a small cottage industry in the West which depicts the people of Saudi Arabia as bizarre, three standard deviations outside human norms. Ms Al Sanea's book is a wonderful, refreshing antidote to this standard Western view. In presenting her more realistic view of life, she has shown significant courage, and no doubt will endure the wrath of the religious conservatives of her own country - who, like the Hollywood of Ms. McCarthy's time, had their rigid standards of what issues could be discussed, and what must be hidden. Her book is a recommended read, and I look forward to reading her next one.

I bought this for a long airplane ride, and it filled the bill perfectly. The characters are likeable, the plot absorbing and easy to follow, and you learn an enormous amount about what it's like to be a part of Saudi Arabia's "velvet class." Educational entertainment - and I was sad to see it end.

As a person who grew up in Saudi Arabia i thought this book was a great reflection of some of the issues that society overthere is dealing with. It gave us a good picture of issues which you would not normally hear about in the media. It was nice to know that they like the rest of the world deal with some of the same hurdles that youth around the world deal with. Overall i think the author did a decent job and should keep writing.

I'm a Saudi girl, I live in Riyadh and I was really eager to read this book but when I read it I was disappointed in away ..I have to admit it that the book was fun to read but it doesn't relate to Saudi girls that much, a lot of facts that have been mentioned in the book are in someway shocking to even imagine it happening in Saudi Arabia ...
The author is talented but she didn't look at the big picture.This book reflects Saudi girls and what she wrote is 1% of Saudi girls .....
others will read this book and think this is what Saudi girls are ,and what they are facing which is not true ...