# Recommend some books about arranged marriages AND help ID this book!

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**Created:** [April 29, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-books-about-arranged-marriages-and-help-id-this-book/242587 "2004-04-29T00:31:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-books-about-arranged-marriages-and-help-id-this-book/242587/1 "2004-04-29T00:31:31Z")

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It’s a two-fer-one!

Recommend some books about arranged marriages (preferably fiction, or easy to read nonfiction). It can be about any culture.

Second, there is a book that I cannot remember the title of, and I can’t find it in a search on Amazon. It is about an Indian woman and her family’s struggle to find the perfect man to marry her off to. It is set in the modern-day, her family still lives in India, but she lives and works in America (New York, I think?). I think the book did fairly well on it’s release, and I believe it was the author’s (a woman, Indian) first book. Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Pupshaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pupshaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pupshaw)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-books-about-arranged-marriages-and-help-id-this-book/242587/2 "2004-04-29T01:43:06Z")

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Could you be thinking of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s _Sister of My Heart_? I think this was an expansion on one of her short stories in her collection _Arranged Marriage_. I recommend both.

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**Author:** ![jeevwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jeevwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevwoman)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-books-about-arranged-marriages-and-help-id-this-book/242587/3 "2004-04-29T14:29:06Z")

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[For Matrimonial Purposes](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0399150706/qid=1083248837/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/102-1413575-1608158?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) by Kavita Daswani. It’s hysterical!!

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**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-books-about-arranged-marriages-and-help-id-this-book/242587/4 "2004-04-29T14:36:43Z")

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A second vote: anything by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is great, esp. that book of short stories.

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**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-books-about-arranged-marriages-and-help-id-this-book/242587/5 "2004-04-29T15:19:37Z")

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**jeevwoman** won! You get… umm… a cookie? 😃

**Pupshaw** and **dangermom** , I will definitely check out Divakaruni

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**Author:** ![jeevwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jeevwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevwoman)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-books-about-arranged-marriages-and-help-id-this-book/242587/6 "2004-04-29T15:35:31Z")

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Chocolate chocaolate chip, please. 😃

Glad I could help. I NEVER know the answers to these types of questions.