For all these reasons, and because of her spreading fame, I expected to enjoy Chitra Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage a lot. Familiar ground, and familiar bits of dialogue. All the participants had arranged marriages,although in a couple of stories a younger woman is contrasting her own lifestyle with her parents' arranged marriage.
Indian men come off badly in the book.
Seems like an awfully one-sided portrait of Indian malehood to me. The stories have varied endings, uppers and downers, but the uppers are often pretty impractical. They have arranged marriages too. I thought the women were more realistic than Bharati Mukherjee's, but that's not enough. The best I can say is that the stories are pleasantly written and do not demand much mental effort on the part of the reader.