Marrying Anita

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2008
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You are a single woman in your thirties, fed up with the singles scene. You are tired of singles dinner parties, and exhausted by phone calls, e-profiles, and forced dinner conversation. You fear you will never marry. What do you do? Anita Jain, a New York-based Indian-American journalist, is just such a woman. Even her parents despair of her and have logged her details on to an Indian dating internet site. For years she has trusted the Western way of finding a husband, but maybe there's something in arranged marriages after all. It certainly can't get any worse. So she's travelling to India in search of a perfect husband. Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at the modern search for a mate set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising New India. Will she find a suitable man? If so, will he please her nosy parents, aunts, uncles and cousins? Is the new urban Indian culture all that different from New York? And is any of this dating worth the effort?

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You are a single woman in your thirties, fed up with the singles scene. You are tired of singles dinner parties, and exhausted by phone calls, e-profiles, and forced dinner conversation. You fear you will never marry. What do you do? Anita Jain, a New York-based Indian-American journalist, is just such a woman. Even her parents despair of her and have logged her details on to an Indian dating internet site. For years she has trusted the Western way of finding a husband, but maybe there's something in arranged marriages after all. It certainly can't get any worse. So she's travelling to India in search of a perfect husband. Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at the modern search for a mate set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising New India. Will she find a suitable man? If so, will he please her nosy parents, aunts, uncles and cousins? Is the new urban Indian culture all that different from New York? And is any of this dating worth the effort?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 07 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 0747583676
ISBN 13: 9780747583677
Book Overview: A funny, revealing account of the author's madcap journey through Manhattan bars and Kashmir war zones in search of a husband Jain's April 2005 article in New York Magazine about her decision to try arranged marriage was among the most read and e-mailed of that month. As one reader put it, this topic is of interest to 'anyone who has ever been in, wanted to be in, or knows someone who's been in a relationship' For fans of Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Media Reviews

'A moving portrait of a woman between cultures and also the holy grail of women's writing: an entertaining work of chick-lit that is meaningful and important' Evening Standard 'Frank and witty' Irish Times 'What's new here - and stunningly so - is Jain's engaging, intelligent voice, at turns wry and provocatively curious' New York Times

Author Bio

Anita Jain has worked as a journalist in a number of cities, including Mexico City, London, Singapore, New York and New Delhi, where she currently lives. She graduated from Harvard University and grew up in northern California.