A review by aislinn_mcd_harrison
Brick Lane by Monica Ali

slow-paced

3.0

This book is at least 30% too long. I genuinely felt the Karim being a radical thing was kind of wedged in and didn’t add much, although maybe I was too younger at the time of 9/11 to understand why it was included.  Alsothat the depiction of people in council housing was quite derogatory- and have since read that that is a sentiment shared by actual residents of Brick Lane, while the author is privately educated from Manchester! That being said I kept going because I liked the little observational humour and slow growth of Nazneen’s agency.