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'A moving portrait of a woman between cultures and also the holy grail of women's writing: entertaining, meaningful and important' Evening Standard 'Marrying Anita is frank and witty and taps into four different genres. It's a 'desperate singleton' book, all irony and farce like Bridget Jones' Diary; it's an exotic travelogue, obliquely referencing Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy and Ruth Prawler Jhabvala's Heat and Dust. It's also a kind of fairytale, in the Blue Bird vein rather than Cinderella' Irish Times 'Of course, there's nothing new in the story of a woman seeking a husband. What's new here - and stunningly so - is Jain's engaging, intelligent voice, at turns wry and provocatively curious ... a thoughtful, incisive exploration of the nature of connection' New York Times
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Anita Jain, a New York-based Indian-American journalist, is single. For years she has trusted the Western way of finding a husband, but maybe there's something in arranged marriages after all. So she's traveling to India in search of a perfect husband, the old-fashioned way. Will she find a suitable man? If so, will he please her interfering family? Is the new urban Indian culture all that different from New York? And is any of this worth the effort? Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at the modern search for a mate set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing New India.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I started this reading this book uder the impression that it would be a REALISTIC view of a slightly 'older' woman searching for true love. Instead, it reads as a catalogue of a bed-hopping tramp's conquests as she moves from the US to India. If she were a decade younger her exploits could be forgiven as naivity, but as a woman approaching 35 her methods of 'snagging' a husband are simply ridiculous. I am also astonished that a Harvard graduate could write such drivel; and that it's an autobiographical account is even more incredible.
Do not read this book unless you are prepared to yell yourself hoarse at the pages. Dreadful.
Do not read this book unless you are prepared to yell yourself hoarse at the pages. Dreadful.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Totally agree with Gundog's review!! I bought this book being in my 30s and unmarried and facing the dilemma of modern methods vs traditional and in the process getting older and older. What I hoped would be something I could empathise with and feel reassured by actually left me riding my moral high horse!! Bed-hopping, hanging out with the wrong crowd and acting like she is a teenager is why she is not married NOT because of any kinda of socially unusual status! Not sure who I would recommend this book to really. Maybe it should be renamed "how not to do it"!!!
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