Story Description:
Kensington|June 26, 2012|Trade Paperback|ISBN:
978-0-7582-5885-4
At thirty-one, Meena Shenoy has a fulfilling career at
a New Jersey high-tech firm. Not that it
impresses her mother and aunts, who make dire predictions about her ticking
bilogical clock. Men are drawn to
Meena’s dainty looks and she dates regularly, but hasn’t met someone who really
intrigues her. Someone professional,
ambitious, confident, caring. Someone
like her new boss, Prajay Nayak.
Just as Meena’s thoughts turn to romance, Prajay makes
an astonishing request. He wants her to
craft a personal ad that will help him find a suitable wife: a statuesque,
sophisticated Indian-American woman who will complement his striking
height.
Despite her attraction to Prajay and the complications
of balancing work and her “marriage consultant” role, Meena can’t refuse the
generous fee. And as her family is
thrown into turmoil by her brother’s relationship with a Muslim woman, Meena
comes to surprising realizations about love, tradition, and the sacrifices she
will – and won’t – make for the sake of both.
My Review:
Meena is thirty-one-years-old and still
unmarried. Her mother is worried about
the fact that she’s still single and that her biological clock is ticking
away. Despite dating, Meena, just can’t
seem to find the man of her dreams.
Meena is just barely five feet tall but is very pretty and she thinks no
man is going to want to marry a “midget.”
Working at a high-tech firm, Meena accidentally
crashes into her boss, Prajay Nayak one day while on her way to a meeting and
falls to the floor. Of course she is
terrible embarrassed and people quickly crowd around her to find out if she is
okay. Meena can barely hold the tears
back for the pain in her ankle when suddenly the water begins dripping out of
her eyes and down her cheeks as she says: “I think I broke my ankle!” Someone from the office runs downstairs to
summons the doctor who works on another floor.
He examines Meena and discovers her ankle isn’t broken but she has a bad
sprain. He tells the people crowded
around to carry her to a couch to lie down.
Without hesitation, Prajay, who is over six feet tall, picks Meena up
and carries her to his office and lays her on the couch. The doctor asks someone to get ice while he
gives Meena some pain pills and writes out a prescription for her to get
filled.
Meena didn’t realize how strong and nice her boss
really was until that day and has fallen head over heels for him. After a short recovery period at home, Meena
returns to work and Prajay asks her to come to his office after work as he
wants to speak with her privately. Meena
thinks she is going to get fired for being off work. However, Prajay has something completely
different in mind. He wants Meena to
write him some personal ads to place on the internet searching for the perfect
girl to become his wife. He has some
very specific instructions like she has to be at least six feet tall and
well-educated. He tells Meena that he
will pay her the regular consultants fee for doing this for him. Of course, Meena is devastated because SHE is
in love with him but is afraid to tell him and now she must help him find the
perfect wife! How in the world is she
going to cope with that? While engaged in
this duty for Prajay, Meena forces herself to date other men but just can’t get
Prajay out of her mind and none of the men she dates measure up. What is she going to do?
This book clearly illustrates a young woman who is
caught between her sense of duty and love.
It was a great read and I would highly recommend it to other people.
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