“The Newlyweds . . . gradually opens out into a genuinely moving story about a woman trying to negotiate two cultures, balancing her parents' expectations with her own aspirations, her ambition and cynical practicality with deeper, more romantic yearnings . . . Ms. Freudenberger demonstrates her assurance as a novelist and her knowledge of the complicated arithmetic of familial love and the mathematics of romantic passion.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“ . . . a delight, one of the easiest book recommendations of the year . . . [Freudenberger]'s that rare artist who speaks fluently from many different cultural perspectives, without preciousness or undue caution . . . [She] knows Amina as well as Jane Austen knows Emma, and despite its globe-spanning set changes, The Newlyweds offers a reading experience redolent of Janeite charms: gentle touches of social satire, subtly drawn characters and dialogue that expresses far more than its polite surface.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

“ . . . [Lucky Girls is a] gorgeously written first book, a remarkably poised collection of stories about Americans abroad . . . Young writers as ambitious—and as good—as Nell Freudenberger give us reason for hope.” —Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times