For matrimonial purposes

Description:

Unable to find a husband despite the efforts of friends, fortune-tellers, and matchmakers, thirty-three year old Anju, confronted by her family's shame, obtains their permission to leave Bombay to look for a husband in the United States.

subjects: India in fiction,  Mate selection,  Single women,  Women in fiction,  Fiction,  Single women in fiction,  East Indians,  East Indians in fiction,  Mate selection in fiction,  Women,  Single women, fiction,  India, fiction,  Fiction, romance, general

Places: India,  United States