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04 Aug / Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India by Anita Jain [in Christian Science Monitor]

Marrying AnitaAt 32, Anita Jain is an object of pity. Never mind her Harvard degree and a journalism career with its expat adventures in far-flung destinations such as London, Mexico City, and Singapore. Ask any auntie or uncle, and they will most assuredly shake their heads at “Naresh’s daughter who is still unmarried.”

Naresh – said father of the pitiable girl – has regularly been placing matrimonial ads on his daughter’s behalf since her 20s: “They read something like, ‘Match for Jain girl, Harvard-educated journalist, 25, fair, slim.’” (Jain is both the family’s religion and last name.)

Her mother, meanwhile, has been worried since her daughter fell out the window of a three-story building at age 1: “My mother’s greatest concern at the time, after learning that I hadn’t been gravely injured, was my marriageability. ‘What boy will marry her when he finds out?’”

So what’s an accomplished woman to do under such pressure? In Jain’s case, she relocates to the land of her immigrant parents to search for that elusive mate. And, in contemporary full-disclosure fashion, she writes a rollicking memoir: Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India. …[click for more]

Review:Christian Science Monitor, August 4, 2008

Readers: Adult

Published: 2008

By Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Indian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian American Tags > Anita Jain, BookDragon, Christian Science Monitor, Cultural exploration, Friendship, Humor, Immigration, Love, Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India, Parent/child relationship, Personal transformation
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