A Bride's Story, Vol. 1 by
Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior. Coping with cultural differences, blossoming feelings for her new husband, and expectations from both her adoptive and birth families, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
I enjoy this series because it shows different cultural practices of courting's, relationships, and weddings from different cultures. This series is fiction, but it still respects and shows how other cultures do weddings and how brides are chosen. Even though I'm not that much into slice-of-life stories, this series does a good job in tying in drama and romance and not making it super cheesy all at the same time.
Audience: Young Adult/Teen
Book 1 of the Manga series.
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