Fiction
Verdict: Read it
One of Sudha Murty's earlier works, but still well worth the read. He writing is still a bit raw, but it works with the characters she's created. She spins the perfect divided house dynamic. A greedy grasping mother who wants her son to earn in dollars, she picks out the perfect wife for him and sends them to the US. Her other son marries a simple girl with no connections or money. Life doesn't work out as the mother hoped. While she has every material thing she could want, her well off son and daughter in law are distant from her. Never given any respect from her, her other son and daughter in law also find it difficult to be kind to her.
The entire book is a brilliant skewer of families who think that having someone earning in dollars is the ultimate show off.
Read it.
Becky
Verdict: Read it
One of Sudha Murty's earlier works, but still well worth the read. He writing is still a bit raw, but it works with the characters she's created. She spins the perfect divided house dynamic. A greedy grasping mother who wants her son to earn in dollars, she picks out the perfect wife for him and sends them to the US. Her other son marries a simple girl with no connections or money. Life doesn't work out as the mother hoped. While she has every material thing she could want, her well off son and daughter in law are distant from her. Never given any respect from her, her other son and daughter in law also find it difficult to be kind to her.
The entire book is a brilliant skewer of families who think that having someone earning in dollars is the ultimate show off.
Read it.
Becky
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