Joumana Khatib
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1,079 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Joumana Khatib’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And this is what you think of as an old-fashioned, sweeping, time-spanning, continent-jumping, rich kind of
romantic epic and it follows two immigrants um sonia when we meet her is a college student and she's lonely and she's miserable and like hates the dorm food and she gets mixed up with this like horrible older painter and and then sunny who is a journalist and
and trying to make it in New York.
And of course, both Sonia and Sunny are, you know, grappling with their family ties back in India.
And their paths cross, first on a train, and then it turns out that their families know each other in these increasingly entwined ways.
It's lush, it's sensual, it's completely absorbing.
There's a real wit to this book.
And I think that for me...
And the representative anecdote that I have about this book is that I was reading it when I was visiting my family over the summer, and I was so absorbed in this book that I did not notice that the neighbor's orchard was on fire.
No, no, no, literally.
The orchard burned.
I don't know what to tell you.
Yeah.
No plot.
I...
I'll give you their number.
I don't know if they speak English.
Yeah.
Next.
I had the feeling, especially as at the climax, I think I said this to both of you, but like I had the feeling of like when I was a kid and I was reading something that I could comprehend on like a word level, but emotionally it was above my pay grade.
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