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This novel’s protagonist overhears her new husband say that having a blind uncle is better than having no uncle to justify why he married her. (10[1])A character in this novel often tells her daughter about a 120-year-old midwife as part of the story of “How You Were Left to Your Fate.” During a controversy over a film adaptation of this novel, Germaine Greer wrote that the title location “is a real place” so “there was no need for [the author] to invent it.” A patriarch in this novel takes out a loan to buy a computer from the moneylender Mrs. Islam. In this novel, anti-immigrant pamphlets denouncing “multicultural murder” are distributed by the Lion Hearts, sparking a war of pamphlets that involves Karim. Hasina, who writes letters to her sister in London in this novel, ends up working as a maid in Dhaka. For 10 points, Chanu and Nazneen live in Tower Hamlets on the title street in what novel by Monica Ali? ■END■

ANSWER: Brick Lane
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Claire JonesChicago AGeorgia Tech A2410

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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y1100%0%0%24.00