![]() In between the signing of the marriage contract and the finalization, he decides to break it. There’s also Sadeem, who gives herself up (losing her virginity) to the man that she is contracted to be married to. Michelle falls in love with Faisal, but because Michelle is not considered to be part of an true Saudi family, has to see him end up marrying someone else. We are also told the story of Michelle, daughter of an Saudi man and an American mother. After they divorce, she is considered “spoiled goods”. We are told the story of Gamrah, who is married off to a man who already has a mistress. ![]() It could be that this anonymous character is actually one of these four women, but we are kept guessing. ![]() Each chapter starts with an anonymous female character telling stories about these four friends, via e-mails to an ever-growing subscriber list of an online yahoo group. However, it goes deeper than the fact that there are four young and wealthy college-age women (some are attending college, some not) who have problems finding their own ”Mr. First of all, I will say that “Girls of Riyadh” is a fast and relatively light read. ![]()
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