Rehman admits she is totally naïve about real life in the US. But perhaps his greatest attribute is his patience with his new wife, who despite speaking English, knows only what she has learned from American movies about her new home. Though this is an arranged marriage, she almost immediately begins to love her new husband Kahlid, who is handsome, hardworking, and kind. Early in the memoir, the 20-year-old author leaves her family and everything she knows in Pakistan as the new bride of a young Pakistani doctor completing his residency in New York. In many ways, Sabeeha Rehman’s memoir, Threading My Prayer Rug, is an immigrant’s story of assimilation including the difficulties and happy surprises she discovers in the process of becoming an American citizen.
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