The author is an American woman who married a Sikh man, and the book is a collection of short stories about American women who married Sikh men. I was not impressed. The first story, about the American/Sikh couple who went to India and were swept into a formal wedding by the man's family, set the tone: 'swarthy faces', 'flashes of colorful saris' etc. etc. Granted this may be what a new visitor to India would see, and it can be fascinating to see your country through another pair of eyes, but these stories didn't come up with much more than cliches. In spite of some stories being written from the p.o.v of the Indian parents, I sensed little affection for them. The Sikh men who dared all to marry their foreign wives, are passive thereafter. One of the better stories was 'Grace', an American woman who couldn't handle the constant intrusions into her privacy by her Indian in-laws. One of the worst was "Missing Persons", with a literature-class writing technique where the characters switch sex every couple of pages. This was merely irritating.

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