Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - A Novel

Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Pick A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages--a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls. Every woman has a secret life . . . Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she's spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father's death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London's close-knit Punjabi community. Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected--and exciting--kind. As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of highly conservative young men who have appointed themselves the community's "moral police." But when the widows' gossip offers shocking insights into the death of a young wife--a modern woman like Nikki--and some of the class erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that threatens them all.

Product details

• Authors: Balli Kaur Jaswal
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780062645128
• ISBN: 978-0-06-264512-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Anthologies: general, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Women, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FICTION: Asian American, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Feminist, FICTION: Friendship, LITERATURE: ASIAN & ASIAN-AMERICAN, Modern and Contemporary romance, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Women's Literature, Women's Literature / Literature/Fiction, Literature / Asian & Asian-American