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Supermarket checkout worker Tracy, who lives with her parents in a crumbling tower block, gets a job as a waitress at the Taste of Persia restaurant. Something of an innocent, possessing a likeable honesty, her life until then has been lived through her romantic fantasies. Now, working for Saaman Sahar (Sam), the Anglicized Iranian owner, her fantasies become the stuff of her life, for the gentle and protective Sam has two wives, Firouzeh and Yvette. Under their tutelage, Tracy blossoms and soon an attraction develops between Sam, who loves to talk, and Tracy, who loves to listen. Compared to her last boyfriend, the immature and loutish Ricky, Sam is wealthy, educated and passionate about life. Hesitantly he and Tracy fall in love. Unknown to her, Sam's two wives have encouraged their relationship from the start, and they become very close to Tracy. Soon Tracy has become Sam's common-law wife and moved into his household, but her blinkered parents and ex-boyfriend cannot get beyond their smutty assumptions that she has been conned into an orgiastic arrangement to satisfy Sam's lusts. Nothing could be further from the truth, as time reveals, and the foursome live together in ideal harmony until crude accusations from others begin to turn their lives upside down. A long, leisurely and thoughtful read, the book does not take sides, but brings out the humour from each, while showing how prejudiced cultural attitudes take a long time to break down. Tracy and her two new sisters have found harmony and happiness in their arrangement, but her meddlesome father and the powers of the state will not let them be. This is a satisfying meditation on family loyalties and trust, innocence and prejudice, which will linger poignantly in the memory. (Kirkus UK)
Sunday Times
"McCarten's novel hovers between indignant satire and engaging
comedy of manners" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Supermarket checkout worker Tracy, who lives with her parents in a crumbling tower block, gets a job as a waitress at the Taste of Persia restaurant. Something of an innocent, possessing a likeable honesty, her life until then has been lived through her romantic fantasies. Now, working for Saaman Sahar (Sam), the Anglicized Iranian owner, her fantasies become the stuff of her life, for the gentle and protective Sam has two wives, Firouzeh and Yvette. Under their tutelage, Tracy blossoms and soon an attraction develops between Sam, who loves to talk, and Tracy, who loves to listen. Compared to her last boyfriend, the immature and loutish Ricky, Sam is wealthy, educated and passionate about life. Hesitantly he and Tracy fall in love. Unknown to her, Sam's two wives have encouraged their relationship from the start, and they become very close to Tracy. Soon Tracy has become Sam's common-law wife and moved into his household, but her blinkered parents and ex-boyfriend cannot get beyond their smutty assumptions that she has been conned into an orgiastic arrangement to satisfy Sam's lusts. Nothing could be further from the truth, as time reveals, and the foursome live together in ideal harmony until crude accusations from others begin to turn their lives upside down. A long, leisurely and thoughtful read, the book does not take sides, but brings out the humour from each, while showing how prejudiced cultural attitudes take a long time to break down. Tracy and her two new sisters have found harmony and happiness in their arrangement, but her meddlesome father and the powers of the state will not let them be. This is a satisfying meditation on family loyalties and trust, innocence and prejudice, which will linger poignantly in the memory. (Kirkus UK)
Sunday Times
"McCarten's novel hovers between indignant satire and engaging
comedy of manners" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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