num_pages: 320
description: When Tina Das finds herself at a crossroads both professionally and personally she wonders if a weeklong trip to Delhi for her cousins lavish wedding might be just the right kind of escape. Maybe a little time away from New York will help get her mind straight about her stalled career her recent breakup and her nagging suspicion that shell never feel as at home in America as she does in India. Tina hopes this destination wedding taking place at Delhis poshest country club Colebrookes will be the perfect way to reflect and unwind. But with the entire Das family in attendance a relaxing vacation is decidedly not in the cards. Her amicably divorced parents are each using the occasion to explore new love interestsfor her mother a white American boyfriend for her father an Indian widow arranged by an online matchmakerand Tinas squarely in the middle. A former fling is unexpectedly on the guest list a work opportunity is blurring the lines of propriety on several fronts and her best friend Mariannes terrible penchant for international playboys is poised to cause all sorts of chaos back home. The accommodations are swanky the alcohol is top-shelf but this family wedding may be more drama than Tina can bear and could finally force her to make the choices shes spent much of her life avoiding.Infused with warmth and charm Destination Wedding grapples with the nuances of family careers belonging and how we find the people who make a place feel like home.
language: English
title: Destination Wedding
publisher: Ballantine Books