A Good Indian Wife
8 best books like A Good Indian Wife (Anne Cherian): The Village Bride of Beverly Hills, Arranged Marriage, Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars, The Hindi-Bindi Club, Wine of the Mystic: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A Spiritual Interpretation, Pest Control, Man of Her Match, The Runaway Bridegroom
| Author | Kavita Daswani |
| ISBN | 0452286565 |
The author of the "enchanting" and "delightful" (USA Today) debut novel For Matrimonial Purposes returns with a romantic comedy about a new bride leading a secret double life.
After an arranged marriage in her native India, Priya moves with her husband to California, where they share a house with...
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| ISBN | 0385483503 |
Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her prose that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Marriage, her first collection of stories, spent five weeks on the San Francisco Chronicle...
Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars
| Author | Ethan Hawke |
| ISBN | 1401310990 |
The year is 1872. The place, the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. Goyahkla, a young brave, has lost his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, he approaches the Apache leader Cochise to lead an attack against the Mexican village of Azripe. It is this wild display of...
For decades they have remained close, sharing treasured recipes, honored customs, and the challenges of women shaped by ancient ways yet living modern lives. They are the Hindi-Bindi Club, a nickname given by their American daughters to the mothers who left India to start anew—daughters now grown...
| Author | Omar Khayyám |
| ISBN | 0876122268 |
I bought a first edition of “Wine of the Mystic” because it’s such a beautiful book. With numerous stunning full-page color reproductions of paintings, gold scrollwork around every page, heavy paper stock, it’s an aesthetically pleasing experience to read it. The subject is Paramahamsa...
| Author | Bill Fitzhugh |
| ISBN | 0060815302 |
Bob Dillon is a down-on-his-luck exterminator from Queens who just wants to make a killing with his radical new environmentally friendly pest elimination technique. But when he decides to advertise, his flyer falls into the hands of a shady European murder-for-hire broker who mistakes Bob for a professional...
| Author | Sakshama Puri Dhariwal |
| ISBN | 0143426257 |
Kicked off the team for a series of misdemeanours, Indian cricket’s bad boy Vikram Walia finally has a chance at redemption. The only problem: it involves collaborating with his childhood best friend turned sworn enemy, Nidhi Marwah.
Once a tomboy, now a gorgeous, self-assured marketing...
| Author | Sundari Venkatraman |
| ISBN | 9388754182 |
Eight-year-old Chanda Maheshwari and thirteen-year-old Veerendra Singh Choudhry are married as per custom. But when the bridegroom runs away immediately after the wedding, the Maheshwari family’s world comes crashing down. They move to Jaipur to begin a new life in the city.
Fourteen...
