Interesting take on a small town sheltered southern Baptist white woman who gets pregnant, marries her high school sweetheart and then moves with him to Saudi Arabia in the 1960's after their baby dies. Some parts quite fascinating and some utterly unrealistic. The fact that young white husband Mason who gave up a promising college life to marry the pregnant Gin is constantly quoting MLK seems improbable. That Gin a sheltered girl who was beaten by her religious grandpa for wearing short sleeves would suddenly get political and want to explore in a repressed country seems equally unlikely. Perhaps the way the characters were portrayed as sort of one dimensional made this novel challenging. Oh and the ending was pretty infuriating.