After her nocturnal binges out of Tupperware containers, this novel's protagonist often recalls the story of "how she was left to her fate.
In this novel, a doctor who drinks two glasses of water before meals to avoid overeating delivers a diagnosis of "Going Home Syndrome" to an obese taxi driver who collects framed degree certificates and takes up a halfhearted campaign for a mobile library. After her nocturnal binges out of Tupperware containers, this novel's protagonist often recalls the story of "how she was left to her fate." In this novel, a war of pamphlets instigated by the racist Lion Hearts leads The Questioner to fight for control of the (*) Bengal Tigers with the protagonist's lover, the radical garment worker Karim. The elderly extortionist Mrs. Islam keeps plane tickets home out of financial reach from this novel's central family, whose Tower Hamlets flat receives pidgin English letters from Hasina, the sister of Chanu's wife Nazneen. For 10 points, name this chronicle of Bangladeshi immigrants in London, written by Monica Ali.
In this novel, a doctor who drinks two glasses of water before meals to avoid overeating delivers a diagnosis of "Going Home Syndrome" to an obese taxi driver who collects framed degree certificates and takes up a halfhearted campaign for a mobile library.
Brick Lane