Summary: <p>Huda Al-Marashi is the Iraqi-American author of First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story, a book the Washington Post called "a charming, funny, heartbreaking memoir of faith, family, and the journey to love. If Jane Austen had grown up as a first-gen daughter of Iraqi parents in the 1990s, she might have written this.”</p> <p>Her other writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the LA Times, al Jazeera, Refinery 29, the Offing and elsewhere. </p> <p>Huda currently resides in California with her husband and three children. We talk about her book and her take on marriage, and relationships. </p> Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/thealienchronicles/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/thealienchronicles/support</a> This podcast is sponsored by <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/70badcc/podcast/sponsor/acugi1/url/https%3A%2F%2Fanchor.fm">Anchor</a>
