Review: Great Read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2012
This is a hilarious tale of two Indian sisters, using every trick they can come up with to drive away the suitors their father keeps bringing home. Being good girls, they have to greet and converse with the prospective husbands. But they can choose hideous clothes, wear terrible hair-dos, and make the conversation short and un-sweet. And they do.Nisha, our heroine, is hooked on romance novels but knows their happily-ever-after endings aren't for her. She accepts her fate, kind of, and hopes only for a man she can stand. Preferably the American nephew of a neighbor who's eager to matchmake for her. Certainly not the motorcycle hippie visiting next door.Then, their aunt arrives from America--California, no less--with her two blonde daughters. Their father is horrified, their mother is angry--her sister ran away and ought to be destitute or worse, certainly not happy and well-off--and their grandmother is thrilled that her long-lost daughter is home. And it's Granny's house.The sisters don't know what to make of their relatives, but they aren't happy to be moved to the basement so the blonde sisters can use their room. In turn, the American sisters are appalled at the bathroom facilities, poverty, and attitudes.Before the story's over, we're treated to a decrepit car, a cow the father turns into a sacred icon for financial reasons, and the entertaining clash of east-west cultures.I can so see this as a Bollywood production. Great read.