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I'm reading The Village Bride of Beverly Hills by Kavita Daswani.

In the few pages that I read this week, Priya continues talking about how she will be the first woman to ever have a job in her family. Her father had said to her, before she got married, "'No woman in this family has ever worked outside the house-- and, look at your sisters are all at home where they belong'" (p. 26). Priya is slowly deciding that she doesn't agree with him, that all women can be happy working in the house. She is reminded of her favorite magazine, which is extremely modest to American magazines that have articles that she finds 'embarrassing' to read. Priya has been dressing in treditional Indian clothing and is considering not doing so because she feels that she is drawing attention to herself. She wears red powder in her hair, symbolizing that she is a newlywed. Many of the women at the magazine she wants to work at find it odd that she lives with her in-laws. This book covers alot of culture clashing, but I think Priya will assimilate fairly quickly to American culture.