But Irie also wants to take a year off to go to Africa she and Clara are in quite the tiff about her plans. Irie is about to be the first Bowden or Jones to go to a university, and she plans to study dentistry.Meanwhile, things are not easy at the Jones household either.She's filled her head with statistics about what Asian men do and how Muslims feel. She has basically been crossing her fingers for this moment and has been reading up on self-revulsion, which is what she thinks Millat suffers from.Millat eventually ends up in the Chalfen's kitchen and finally asks Joyce for her advice.He walks a long eight miles home, and calls Karina Cain from a payphone to dump her.She asks him if he'll leave her alone if she pays him. He goes up to her and starts quoting one of his group's leaflets about self-respect and soulmates and how women should only seek to provide 'visual pleasure' to the men who love them. One day, after working a shift at the Palace, Millat sees an Indian woman sitting alone.His acculturation to KEVIN is near complete. He begins to think that she's dressed provocatively because she wants other men to look at her. So Millat starts getting all annoyed with Karina Cain, the same girl who had been making him so happy.KEVIN doesn't like Millat's studliness with these non-Muslim women.He is only cheating on her with three other girls, which is a personal best for Millat. Things are going well with his current girlfriend, Karina Cain.

Women of all colors, shapes, and sizes want Millat, but he only dates Protestant white women who are size 10 (American size 8) between the ages of fifteen and twenty-eight (that's quite the age range, if we do say so ourselves). Meanwhile, Joyce is trying to fix Millat's problems with white women.That's one way to handle the situation, we guess. At first, Irie is upset, but then she decides to be a dentist. He thinks maybe she should go into dentistry. In one letter, Marcus says he doesn't think Irie has a future in hard science.Through sneaking peeks at their letters, Irie sees exactly what she feared: mutual recognition and mutual admiration.Their names even sound good together: Marcus and Magid. Irie is not cool with this new friendship because her mentor seems to have found a new protégé in Magid.Irie has to rearrange her filing system to make room for all the pages they generate. In the 1990s, Marcus and Magid become pen pals-this is what people did before email existed-and they cannot get enough of letter-writing.

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