{"id":40330,"date":"2016-03-06T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=40330"},"modified":"2016-06-04T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T00:28:16","slug":"a-bollywood-bride-by-sonali-dev-in-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-bollywood-bride-by-sonali-dev-in-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/02\/Bollywood-Bride-by-Sonali-Dev-on-BookDragon-via-Booklist.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40335\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40335\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/02\/Bollywood-Bride-by-Sonali-Dev-on-BookDragon-via-Booklist-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev on BookDragon via Booklist\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/02\/Bollywood-Bride-by-Sonali-Dev-on-BookDragon-via-Booklist-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/02\/Bollywood-Bride-by-Sonali-Dev-on-BookDragon-via-Booklist.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a>Ria Parker has avoided going home to Chicago for far too long, offering up convenient excuses about her demanding Bollywood career. With her beloved more-brother-than-cousin&#8217;s impending wedding, Ria finally heads stateside from Mumbai to face the family.<\/p>\n<p>For 10 years, she&#8217;s managed to avoid first-and-only-love Vikram, thinking that she&#8217;s saved him from a miserable future looming with insanity. But when she meets him and his new girlfriend \u2013 virtually <em>in flagrante<\/em> in the family basement \u2013 running away this time proves impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Sonali Dev (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-bollywood-affair-by-sonali-dev\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Bollywood Affair<\/a><\/em>) continues her bicultural Bollywood streak, albeit this time adding more steam than substance. Attempts at inclusion of weightier fare \u2013 a Chinese American adoptee who grew up in foster care, mental illness, cultural appropriation, social justice \u2013 feel clumsy and misplaced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict<\/strong>: Thankfully, versatile Priya Ayyar with her mellifluously fluent accents switches seamlessly from sibling banter and adoring older servants to overwrought sex scenes and dancing aunties without missing a beat. Where better editing might have erased dozens of unnecessary pages, Ayyar manages to keep the eye-rolling impatience to a minimum, ever charmingly entertaining even beyond the gorgeous-but-flat characters playing out their inevitably predictable plot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: modified from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bookverdict.com\/details.xqy?uri=Product2016-03-01-8751808.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Audio,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, March 1, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ria Parker has avoided going home to Chicago for far too long, offering up convenient excuses about her demanding Bollywood career. With her beloved more-brother-than-cousin&#8217;s impending wedding, Ria finally heads stateside from Mumbai to face the family. 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