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Unable to find a man whom 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. Reprint.
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Kavita Daswani has been a fashion correspondent for CNN, CNBC Asia, and Women’s Wear Daily, has written for the Los Angeles Times and the International Herald Tribune, among many other publications, and has been the fashion editor for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.
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- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0452285526
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