Both parties in this cross-cultural marriage between an American, Sonia Gorski, and a Saudi, Aziz Shubaily, suffer. After the initial intoxication of East meets West, when the couple fall in love at a Midwestern college, marry and live for five years in the United States, they leave for Riyadh with their two children. Sonia lives as an Arab woman, donning the veil and struggling with the disparities between the Islamic culture she finds increasingly...