A review by candidlyneila
The Mismatch by Sara Jafari

5.0

calling all Etaf Rum fans, fans who appreciate a diverse cast of characters, and coming-of-age and romance-lovers: this Sara Jafari novel is your next 5 ⭐️ read. presenting as your typical romance, the layers this book has will have you gasping on one page and clutching your chest on the next. this story follows Soraya, an Iranian-British twenty-something year old woman who explores her sexual and romantic identities with a white British man, Magnus. forbidden love trope riddled with intergenerational Muslim guilt, this book is duo POV between Soraya and her mother Neda, jumping between modern England and 1970s Iran, told through a third person narrator. absolutely brilliant read, i have a lot of love for this book.