The Wedding
eBook - ePub

The Wedding

A Novel

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Wedding

A Novel

About this book

You're invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.

Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran delivers a wide-ranging but intimate portrait of a vibrant, complex Sikh community.

Set in Vancouver and Surrey, BC, The Wedding exposes the inner lives of the wedding party, guests and event staff, in the lead-up to a lavish wedding. This novel, centered around the impending marriage of Devi and Baby, illustrates the union of two people, two families and all the ways in which an entire community bears witness, ensnares and uplifts itself.

Like all great Bollywood films, The Wedding is rife with family drama, steeped in tradition and an ode to love in all its forms. With humour, nuance and honesty, The Wedding spills the chai—exploring desire and expectation, suffering and judgment, class and race—all in search of a happy enough ever after.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Other novels by Gurjinder Basran
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication & Epigraph
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Characters
  8. You’re Invited!
  9. Vadayaan
  10. Dear Auntie
  11. Basic Baby
  12. No Thru Road
  13. Ready for This Jelly?
  14. Best Laid Plans
  15. Mottu
  16. Just the Best of Us
  17. How I Wonder Who You Are
  18. A Gaggle, a Mischief, a Murder
  19. Love Languages
  20. Lucky, Lucky Boy
  21. You Indians Are Everywhere
  22. A Good Family
  23. The Brampton Bride’s Advice
  24. Cold Feet
  25. God Willing
  26. Izzat
  27. The Morning After
  28. Epilogue
  29. Acknowledgements
  30. About the Author