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From the book jacket: Nikki, a modern-day daughter of Indian immigrants, has spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father’s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki impulsively takes a job teaching a “creative writing” course at the community center in the beating heart of London’s close-kknit Punjabi community. ...more
From the book jacket: Nikki, a modern-day daughter of Indian immigrants, has spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father’s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki impulsively takes a job teaching a “creative writing” course at the community center in the beating heart of London’s close-kknit Punjabi community. ...more
Nikki is a British-born Punjabi/Sikh Indian living slightly apart from a tight community of Punjabi Sikhs. A law-school dropout with interest in feminism, she commutes to the traditional community to supplement her bartender income as an under-qualified creative writing instructor for an all-female class.
Through little fault or input from Nikki, the small convocation of mostly illiterate widows evolves as a story club, exchanging very well-composed erotic fantasies.
The mixed-genre book becomes m ...more
Through little fault or input from Nikki, the small convocation of mostly illiterate widows evolves as a story club, exchanging very well-composed erotic fantasies.
The mixed-genre book becomes m ...more
This was a fun read! It was a great story and provided some background and information on the Indian culture that I loved learning.
Aug 29, 2019
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