Q4 7B

I just finished reading The Village Bride of Beverly Hills by Kavita Daswani and I enjoyed it alot!

I liked the ending of the book because I got to read more about Priya and Sanjay's marraige and less about Priya's job, yet I did like to see the progress Priya made at her job. She made alot of new friends and eventually made her way to being a red carpet interview anchor. Unfortunately as soon as she got the job, her marraige started falling apart.
Have you ever met someone who is so happy that it makes you question your own happiness? Priya meets Karishma, an Indian woman, who eloped with an American man, Steve, and is very much in love. Priya befriends them and realizes that her home life is incomplete and highly demanding. "She was the kind of woman who, no matter how long I stayed in this country and how pretty my clothes were, I would never become. She was free, and I never would be" (196). Priya goes to counseling withj Steve, a psychotherapist, and tries to get Sanjay to come to a session. Sanjay thinks that it is stupid and claims that there is nothing wrong with their marraige.
Priya ends up asking for a divorce and goes back to her family's home in India. Some are happy to see her, others believe she is a burden. I think it would be awful to feel like you don't belong anywhere. Priya becomes a stronger person and when Sanjay comes back into her life (he does and he had gone to therapy with Steve for her), she is able to have much more say in their relationship. Sanjay bought them their own house so that they don't have to put up with his parents.