Marrying Anita
A Quest for Love in the New India
By Anita Jain
(Bloomsbury USA, Paperback, 9781596911864, 320pp.)
Publication Date: June 9, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Asia - India, Essays & Travelogues
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“Sex and the City Delhi-style.”—Time Out New York
After years of frustration in the New York singles scene, with constant pressure from her Indian parents to find a mate, Anita Jain begins to wonder if an arranged marriage could possibly be any worse than looking for a man in a bar. So she boards a plane for Delhi and lands smack in the center of the New India, where she finds a very Westernized lifestyle of bar- and bed-hopping, not at all dissimilar from New York, but with the added complication of traditional attitudes toward women and marriage.Anita Jain grew up in northern California and graduated from Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Travel & Leisure, and she has worked as a journalist in a number of cities, including Mexico City, London, Singapore, New York, and New Delhi, where she currently lives.
“A thoughtful, incisive exploration of the nature of connection.”—New York Times
“A lively, irreverent look at the changing societal and sexual mores of newly globalized Indian cities…Richly detailed.”—Washington Post“This is a fun book and a smart, funny woman.”—Newsday
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