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The best travel books are a judicious mix of description, analysis, and navel-gazing. This one had too much navel-gazing for my tastes, especially since it was of the hackneyed variety. I was looking for more about life in modern India in general and less about chick issues. Ultimately, the author had nothing especially insightful to say and the stories she told would have benefited from major pruning.
Miranda Kennedy spent five years in India, working as a reporter. Of all the quirkiness that is today’s India, the most intriguing is the way women find husbands in this otherwise-quite-modern country; despite all the modern aspects of life that India has acquired, most women still find their spouses through arranged marriages. Kennedy has reached a point in her personal life where she longs for the companionship of a long-term relationship and so much of the story looks at relationships, both K
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