Arranged Marriage: Stories
“There had been signs of trouble even earlier. Maybe that was why Preeti’s mother had kept warning her right up to the time of the marriage.“It’ll never work, I tell you,” she had declared gloomily as she placed a neatly folded pile of shimmery dupattas in the suitcase Preeti would be taking back to Berkeley with her after the wedding. “Here you are, living in the U.S. since you were twelve. And Deepak—he’s straight out of India. Just because you took a few classes together at the university, an...d you liked how he talks, doesn’t mean that you can live with him.”“Please, Ma!” Preeti paused halfway through emptying out her makeup drawer. “We’ve been over this a hundred times. Don’t you think it’s time to stop, considering the fact the wedding’s tomorrow?”“It’s never too late to stop yourself from ruining your life,” her mother said. “What do you really know about how Indian men think? About what they expect from their women?”“Now don’t start on that again.MoreLess
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