Review: Indian offering to be savoured - clever and funny!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2014
Although Nisha and Vinita are college graduates and presumably free to do what they want with their lives, nothing is as simple as it should be in India. Their bad-tempered, close-fisted father Rasik is determined to marry them off as custom demands and presents the girls with ghastly - but "appropriate" suitors on a regular basis. Their lives seem to be on the traditional Indian path (for women, at least) until Ma's sister and her two American daughters burst in on the scene - and everyone's lives change for ever.Samson's writing is charged with non-stop action and colour; she injects humour into what are stifling circumstances; narrow lives strangled by ancient customs can't prevent girls from dreaming of Prince Charming, travel or the freedom to work.I tried as hard as I could to read as little as possible so as not to finish it too soon, but alas! I finally turned the last page, as happily satisfied as after a banquet! Kudos, Samson!