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A review by beate251
Sorry for the Inconvenience by Farah Naz Rishi
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.0
I picked this book as my Amazon First Read for June 24 because it sounded the best of what was on offer. I didn't realise it's an autobiography and if I had I might not have chosen it. There are two problems with autobiographies - they talk about real people who might object about how you talk about them because the second problem is that you will only ever get one side of the story. I was actually hoping that none of her family are still around to read this utterly selfish account - I can't understand why someone would think they'd come across well as the narrator here.
Looks like I got my wish.
This feels like an overlong AITA post in which the OP is certain everyone will agree with them as it's always everyone else who is in the wrong.
Poor Stephen, who has always been by her side, moving for her, converting to Islam for her, telling her he loved her, marrying her purely so she could profit of his health insurance, and what did she ever do for him? Write sentences like "I moved to Philadelphia." Not we, I. She moved without him. I couldn't believe her selfishness. "Stephen understood." No offence, Stephen, but what do you see in that woman? She went on a writing course when her father had terminal cancer. She shouted at her mother on her death bed. She moaned about the fact her mother used her money on herself instead of giving it to her. The only thing the author did right was deciding not to have kids because she doesn't think she'd be a good mother. Too right she wouldn't!
I thought this book would detail her unconventional love story with Stephen but she never really talks about her feelings for him or what kind of marriage they established at the end. She only ever tells us what he did for her, which is, as we learnt, a lot.
Believe me, I understand difficult parents, and Asian immigrant ones seem to be among the most difficult, but she happily took their money for three years of law school, only to jack it in before the last hurdle. Even I would have said, take that last bar exam and you will always have something to fall back on, but she couldn't be bothered, and enabler Stephen probably even encouraged her. Infuriating.
This feels like an overlong AITA post in which the OP is certain everyone will agree with them as it's always everyone else who is in the wrong.
Poor Stephen, who has always been by her side, moving for her, converting to Islam for her, telling her he loved her, marrying her purely so she could profit of his health insurance, and what did she ever do for him? Write sentences like "I moved to Philadelphia." Not we, I. She moved without him. I couldn't believe her selfishness. "Stephen understood." No offence, Stephen, but what do you see in that woman? She went on a writing course when her father had terminal cancer. She shouted at her mother on her death bed. She moaned about the fact her mother used her money on herself instead of giving it to her. The only thing the author did right was deciding not to have kids because she doesn't think she'd be a good mother. Too right she wouldn't!
I thought this book would detail her unconventional love story with Stephen but she never really talks about her feelings for him or what kind of marriage they established at the end. She only ever tells us what he did for her, which is, as we learnt, a lot.
Believe me, I understand difficult parents, and Asian immigrant ones seem to be among the most difficult, but she happily took their money for three years of law school, only to jack it in before the last hurdle. Even I would have said, take that last bar exam and you will always have something to fall back on, but she couldn't be bothered, and enabler Stephen probably even encouraged her. Infuriating.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Cancer, Grief, Medical content, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gaslighting
Minor: Sexual assault