Monica Pradhan's The Hindi-Bindi Club

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Introduction The book is written by Monica Pradhan. She was born in Pittsburgh and lives nowadays with her husband in Toronto and Minnesota. Her love for novels grew in elementary school. Until now she has written one book, the Hindi-Bindi club. I chose this book, in behalf of someone recommended this book to me. She told me briefly the story about the book and the different themes in it. The book is spread out in five parts and in every part there are different chapters and each chapter is about one person telling her story. In the beginning this is a little fuzzy, since you are reading about one person and then about the other person. Therefore it is important to keep your concentration on the book to follow it. There are 6 main characters. The mothers: Uma, Saroj and Meenal and the daughters: Rani, Preity and Kiran. In each chapter the story of these characters are told. It takes place in America. This is very important, while the book is about, east meets west and the relationships between the daughters and mothers. It is interesting to read about many characters, as it keeps my interest. If you have a book, with one person telling his daily life story, with …show more content…

There are problems involved, like divorces and marriage struggle and you recognize the difficulties that they struggle with. Although it is also positive, since there is a lot of love between the personages. When you are reading the book about the lives of this young and elderly women you will also read about their family. This is related to relationships between those families, considering they are important in Indian culture. You will read about the family in India and the family in America, which is very different from each other in habits. It is nice to read about the different perspectives in the book and how they see their man, children, family and how they will handle the problems in this

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