![]() ![]() And Nick has stopped returning her e-mails. ![]() Americanized to look upon arranged marriages as monstrous and absurd, but still Indian enough to find it hard to defy her parents outright, Priya is in a bind. She didn’t have the nerve to tell them about Nick Collins, her American fiancé back in San Francisco, so they took matters into their own hands by arranging a marriage for her to Adarsh Sarma, the handsome and very eligible son of a prominent local family. Her family is proud of her accomplishments, but they worry that, at 27, Priya is on the verge of becoming an old maid. Now on her first visit back to her family in more than seven years, she’s surprised at just how foreign India-with its dirt, heat, and traditions-has become to her. ![]() A welcome second from Malladi ( A Breath of Fresh Air, 2002), who sends a young expatriate back to her family in India and makes her grow up fast.Ī bright girl from an ambitious Brahmin family, Priya studied computer science at Texas A&M and has a good job in Silicon Valley. ![]()
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