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William Morrow
June 2017
On Sale: June 13, 2017
304 pages
ISBN: 0062645129
EAN: 9780062645128
Kindle: B01M1G2SV6
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Women's Fiction
A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story
about community, friendship, and women’s lives at all ages—a
spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and
Calendar Girls. Every woman has a secret life . . . Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar
at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s
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, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job
teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center
in the beating heart of London’s close-knit Punjabi community. Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who
show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not
the art of short-story writing. When one of the widows finds
a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the
class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her
students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to
liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express
their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most
unexpected—and exciting—kind. As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her
students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a
group of highly conservative young men who have appointed
themselves the community’s "moral police." But when the
widows’ gossip offers shocking insights into the death of a
young wife—a modern woman like Nikki—and some of the class
erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that
threatens them all.
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