{"product_id":"9781615992874","title":"Swati's Marriage and Other Tales of India","description":"In India, the life of women has never been easy by any stretch of the imagination. \u003ci\u003eSwati's Marriage and Other Tales of India\u003c\/i\u003e brings their eternal \u003cp\u003estruggles to a new audience by engaging the subject head-on through the eyes of young women in the 21st century. Western audiences may have assumed that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esuch considerations as dowries, arranged marriage, and abuse of spouses, servants, and the elderly would be tempered in the age of social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, Ankita Sharma's characters confront these issues as they persevere in their quest for love, independence, and fulfillment in the face of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecenturies of social mores, traditions, and institutionalized repression. Sometimes, all they can do is put on a smile for their armor and retreat to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efight another day, their only comfort being hope that their children will have it better than they did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the human condition expressed on every page-the desperate longing for meaning, for acceptance, for love and understanding that we all seek, that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewe all despair we may not find, that brings us together into a shared experience at the very same moment that it separates us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fans of Masterpiece's \u003ci\u003eIndian Summer\u003c\/i\u003e and the stories of Ruskin Bond will welcome this female perspective on modern-day Indian life. These short \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estories are full of epiphanies and restrictions that remind one of James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield's work and show how little the human experience \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echanges, despite cultural differences.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D. and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eNarrow Lives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Best Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the World Voices Series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern History Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewww.ModernHistoryPress.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Loving Healing Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061264466160,"sku":"9781615992874","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781615992874_p0.jpg?v=1763849257","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781615992874","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}