I'm reading The Village Bride of Beverly Hills by Kavita Daswani.
This week I read a few more pages and Indian culture and American culture have been clashing for Priya. She got a jod at the Hollywood Insider, a gossip magazine. She feels that she needs to change her clothes so that she doesn't stand out as much. She recently got her license and is scared to drive on the freeway and because of that she takes the side roads and has trouble making it home for dinner so her mother-in-law is helping out more. Her sister-in-law has a pierced belly button and doesn't wear traditional Indian dress, making Priya think that she is a "bad girl".
This week there was also a chapter I read about their arranged marriage. Priya and Sanjay didn't meet until a week before their wedding to exchange vows. The husband's family also gives money and other large gifts to the bride's family called a dowry. In India, women don't take only the husban'd last name, they also often take on his first name as their middle name.
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