The Hindi-Bindi Club
by Monica Pradhan
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Author: Monica PradhanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 055338452X
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Bantam
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Summary: 5 Stars
This is a glorious book. It's a witty, funny, engaging and romantic but also deftly addresses some quite weighty issues of immigration, assimilation and multi-culturalism as well as personal pain and loss.
Its effortless prose and perfectly judged dialogue sweeps you in to the lives of six women: three mothers, the Hindi Bindi Club, who left India in the 50s and 60s to begin new lives with their husbands in the States and their daughters all born in the USA. They tell their stories in alternating chapters, the daughters facing problems in the present and the mothers dealing with their cultural heritage as wives and mothers in America.
Kiran is a doctor and estranged from her family since her "unsuitable" marriage to a musician, she is now divorced and feels her biological clock ticking so she returns home for the holidays to discuss an unexpected way of finding a husband. Meenal, her mother, has had to confront a life changing experience since they last were together. Preity was always the goody two shoes but her mother Saroj's conspicuous displays of wealth conceal her memories of the horrors of Partition and an extraordinary secret. Rani is a successful artist who has just had her first show but has lost her inspiration and her successful, academic mother Uma carries with her the hurt of being told never to return to India after her marriage to a Westerner. Kiran's search for a husband begins a journey which takes them places they never thought they would go.
These six people and their stories are the building blocks of a wonderful personal story which will take you across India and through its history and its diversity of languages, cultures and religions - and recipes!
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