Nikki realizes they are mostly illiterate and resistant to being taught the alphabet like they were children, not at all capable of writing their stories themselves. She ends up teaching Punjabi widows who are isolated because of their widowhood, and the class becomes a safe place they can gather and be themselves. She’s hired and gets more than she bargained for. While there, she sees a posting for someone to teach creative writing two evenings a week.
Mindi has Nikki place an ad on the matrimonial board at Southall’s Sikh temple. Her sister, Mindi, is more conservative than Nikki and wants an arranged marriage. To support herself while she figures out what she’s doing with her life, she lives above the bar she works in. The protagonist, Nikki, a law school dropout, is caught between her modern, more feminist values and the traditional values of her Punjabi family. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal reveals the immigrant experience in Britain, particularly in the Sikh community of London’s Southall.
I read this novel because I enjoy being transported to different places and cultures.
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