Invisible lives

Description:

Lakshmi Sen, a young woman who has the uncanny ability perceive people's secret longings, puts her gift to use in her widowed mother's Seattle sari shop--finding fabrics that ease a bride's cold feet, evoke a widow's first love, and even soothes a young autistic boy's fears. Her reputation draws the interest of Bollywood star Asha Rae, but whenever the Rae's charming chauffeur Nick is around, Lakshmi has trouble keeping her own emotions in check. Will she allow herself to fall for Nick or marry the Indian doctor her family has chosen for her?

subjects: Saris,  Dating (Social customs),  Specialty stores,  Fiction,  Interracial dating,  East Indian American women,  Culture conflict,  Chick lit,  Widows,  Bengali Americans,  East Indian Women,  Women,  East Indians

Places: Seattle (Wash.),  Seattle,  Washington (State)