Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
By Ballin Kaur Jaswal
A quirky, if unbelievable story centred around the Punjabi community in London. Nikki, a young, modern British Punjabi Sikh, quits law school and is at loose ends, while working in a pub to make ends meet. She visits the local gurudwara to post a matrimonial ad for her sister, and comes across an ad for a writing teacher for women.
She thinks the job is about helping women write stories, but something quite different unfolds. The women, mostly widows, end up writing stories about their sexual longing an desires, and the stories quickly gain circulation within the Punjabi community (This was the unbelievable part, like, really?)
Nikki also helps solve a murder case.
Some interesting bits about the racism faced my the Sikhs in London, about how gangs of male thugs control the women in the community, how murders of innocent women are generally labelled "accidental deaths" and are never solved.
Rating: 3/4
Recommendation: Another book about things with an Indian theme. Cutesy.
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