The Bamboo Stalk is a 2012 novel by Kuwaiti author Saud Alsanousi, and translated into English by Jonathan Wright.
This book provide examples of:
- All Love Is Unrequited
- Calling Parents by Their Name: Merla refers to Aida this way.
- Dysfunctional Family: The Mendozas.
- Kissing Cousins
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Merla officially leaving the Mendoza home involves Aida crying and desperately begging her to stay. Merla's refusal culminates to Aida briefly relapsing to alcohol.
- Rags to Riches
- Uptown Girl: Deconstructed.
