Finding an Indian Husband, Book Deal
Here's another book about how much it sucks to be a single thirty-something woman in New York! But before you yawn, this one has a semi-original twist: When the author, Anita Jain, whose parents brought her to the US from India when she was a baby, decided to give up on finding love in the Big Apple, she returned to her birthplace where "marriages are routinely arranged by parents and extended family." Now there's an idea: when you've run out of options on Match.com, you can always consider returning to tactics of the Middle Ages!
Jain, who first detailed her quest in New York magazine a few years ago, says the pressure to marry started when she was a baby. By her early 30s, it had turned into a nightmare:
This thought was completely mortifying, yet enough within the realm of possibility that it kept my eyes pinned back and staring at the ceiling on more than a few sleepless nights. The bogeyman: namely that if I stayed in New York any longer I would end up growing old alone, "treating" myself to brunch every Sunday and the occasional Broadway show.
It's too awful to contemplate! Can we come and live in New Delhi too?
