num_pages: 277
description: Unable to find a man who she is willing to marry despite the efforts of friends, fortune-tellers, and matchmakers, twenty-four-year-old Anju, confronted by her family's shame, obtains their reluctant permission to travel to the United States, where husband hunting proves no easier, but where unmarried women are much more commonplace. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.
language: English
title: For Matrimonial Purposes
titlecomplete: For Matrimonial Purposes
characters: Anju
genres: Chick Lit, Literature, Asia, Contemporary, India, Adult, Cultural, Adult Fiction, New York, Novels
ratings_count: 2209
publisher: Putnam