Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

No cover — Balli Kaur Jaswal: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (2017, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-264513-5

(1 review)

After her father's death, Nikki, who has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community, takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi community.

Nikki has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community. After her father's death she takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi community. When one of the women students brings a book of erotica to class, Nicki use it as the basis for helping these modest women unleash creativity by telling their own stories.

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ralentina reviewed Erotic stories for Punjabi widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

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5 stars

It may not be high literature, but this is a fantastic book! It's funny, clever and oh so sexy. It's also a sensitive (at least to my outsider's eyes), affectionate portrayal of the Punjabi diaspora in and around London, in all its internal diversity - but I promise that does not real like an anthropology book or a national geographic article - it reads like romance/mystery/erotic novel.

Perhaps the handling of the end of the story (when perpetrators are found and love prevails) is predictable, but then again, one could see that as an homage to the genre. Be prepared to see aubergines and ghee in a whole new light.

Subjects

Fiction, general