The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama--an Indian This Is Where I Leave You--about three Punjabi Sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their mother to rest. "I also wanted to explore the tensions between tra. "I was curious about how different the trip would be if it were undertaken by women, who are vulnerable to different dangers in a male-dominated society," Balli Kaur Jaswal writes.
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is a female take on the Indian travel narrative.
Arriving in India, these Sisters will make unexpected discoveries about themselves, their mother, and their lives--and learn the real story behind the trip Rajni took with their Mother long ago--a momentous journey that resulted in Mum never being able to return to India again.
Shirina\'s in-laws are pushing her to make a pivotal decision about her married life; time away will help her decide whether to meekly obey, or to bravely stand up for herself for the first time.
Jezmeen has just been publicly fired from her television job, so the trip to India is a welcome break to help her pick up the pieces of her broken career.
But she\'s always been a dutiful daughter, and cannot, even now, refuse her mother\'s request.
After a trip to India with her mother long ago, Rajni vowed never to return.
On her deathbed, their mother voices one last wish: that her daughters will make a pilgrimage together to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out her final rites.
Shirina, the peacemaking "good" sister married into wealth and enjoys a picture-perfect life.
Jezmeen, a thirty-year-old struggling actress, fears her big break may never come.
Rajni, a school principal is a stickler for order.
The British-born Punjabi Shergill sisters--Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirnia--were never close and barely got along growing up, and now as adults, have grown even further apart.
The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama--an Indian This Is Where I Leave You--about three Punjabi Sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their mother to rest
