Unmarried at 24 - and with no prospects in sight - Anju is a great source of worry to her family. Despite the best efforts of relatives, fortune-tellers, and matchmakers to arrange a marriage, she can't seem to find a husband - or at least one she's willing to marry. Quickly becoming a spinster by her culture's standards, she is eager to escape the community that views her as a failure. After pleading with her parents for permission, she boards a plane bound for the United States and a dream of a career. And while husband-hunting isn't any easier in New York City, at least she's got company.
In this sparkling debut, an unconventional heroine defies tradition by making a marriage between the strict customs of India and the wild freedoms of America to find her own happy ending. Hilarious and heart-warming, For Matrimonial Purposes proves that, while the search for love takes many forms, the heartbreak and exhilaration are universal.
This charming novel follows the rocky courtship of an Indian girl who is both a New York City career girl and a traditional upper-class Bombay daughter who wants to please her parents. Too independent, educated, and perhaps a shade dark-complexioned for the boys of her parents' world, in which marriages are arranged, yet too chaste and loyal to her parents' ways and wishes for dating in the West, Anju's many false starts make for a fascinating primer on traditional marriage customs in modern India. Anju's modesty, character, and humor in this dilemma are wholly winning, and Anne Flosnik handles the hubbub of Western and Subcontinental voices with lithe aplomb. B.G. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
About the Creator
Kavita Daswani has been a fashion correspondent for CNN, CNBC Asia, and Women's Wear Daily, has written for the Los Angeles Times and the International Herald Tribune, among many other publications, and has been the fashion editor for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. A native of Bombay, she now lives in Los Angeles.
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