![]() And Nick has stopped returning her e-mails. Americanized to look upon arranged marriages as monstrous and absurd, but still Indian enough to find it hard to defy her parents outright, Priya is in a bind. She didn’t have the nerve to tell them about Nick Collins, her American fiancé back in San Francisco, so they took matters into their own hands by arranging a marriage for her to Adarsh Sarma, the handsome and very eligible son of a prominent local family. Her family is proud of her accomplishments, but they worry that, at 27, Priya is on the verge of becoming an old maid. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now on her first visit back to her family in more than seven years, she’s surprised at just how foreign India-with its dirt, heat, and traditions-has become to her. A welcome second from Malladi ( A Breath of Fresh Air, 2002), who sends a young expatriate back to her family in India and makes her grow up fast.Ī bright girl from an ambitious Brahmin family, Priya studied computer science at Texas A&M and has a good job in Silicon Valley. ![]()
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