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An Incurable Insanity
by Simi K Rao
Paperback, eBook, 376 pages
Published October 8, 2013 by Tate Publishing
Her
heart fluttered when she heard the sound of the key turn in the lock.
She quickly adjusted her maroon silk sari with the yellow border, the
one that had caught his eye, and waited eagerly for his footsteps.
One,
two, three, four, five, six, seven... Yes, exactly seven steps before
he stopped, hesitated for a few moments, then removed his shoes one by
one and arranged them neatly side by side on the shoe rack.
She
smiled. He had been mindful of taking his shoes off every day now. "I
am not used to it, but I will if you want me to. It's probably a good
thing to do anyway."
As
he settled down, he would pick up the TV remote and, without looking at
her, would say in his smooth baritone, "So how did you spend your day,
anything interesting?"
Shaan
Ahuja found himself bowing to tradition and agreeing to an arranged
marriage to the beautiful Ruhi Sharma. He went through the motions but
had no intention of carrying through on his vows. His last foray into
matters of the heart with an American girl had left him scarred and
unwilling to try again. Thoroughly disillusioned and disgruntled he
wasted no time in making his intentions clear to Ruhi on their wedding
night. But, he was completely unprepared for what his new wife had in
mind.
Ruhi
is an independent, feisty, business school graduate who comes from a
warm and loving family. Only problem. She is an only child and her
parents want nothing more than to see her married. When the socially
high-class and wealthy father of the groom brokers a match between Ruhi
and his youngest son, Shaan, the stars seemed to line up and Ruhi is
prepared for happily ever after.
Until... the groom drops a bomb on her wedding night. He won't sleep with her because he's in love with someone else! Scrreeeccch...
Facing an arranged marriage, Ms. Rao’s characters give us a chance to explore ancient traditions against the backdrop of a modern society with
a high divorce rate. We also get the chance to experience the cultural
differences between two countries, men and women and the basic truth
that all you need is love.
There
was no shortage of emotion in this book. There was a little bit of
everything. For every passage that made me want to smack somebody, there
was one where I wanted to nod my head and say "see, you're doing it
right". The swoony moments were swoony, and there was just enough humor to lighten moments at the exact right time. Thank you, Sunshine and that crazy bird of hers.
The
writing in this novel was amazing, but don’t even get me started on the
characters themselves. They were so real and easy to relate to that I
couldn’t help but fall in love with them, both as individuals and as a
couple. I found myself at one second thinking ‘If they’d just talk to
each other’ and at the next thinking ‘but I’d so have done the same
thing.’ This was a true comedy of errors with no easy way out of the corner they’ve backed themselves into.
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Simi K. Rao was
born in India and has been living in the United States for several
years. The inspiration for An Incurable Insanity came from what she has
seen transpire among and within the immigrant community. Some of the
experiences included are her own; some have been garnered from friends
and casual conversations with acquaintances...
I
am a physician–and to many I may appear serious and solitary. But once
people get to know me better, they often think that I am frank, down to
earth, with quite a quirky sense of humor. And that is what I bring to
my writing—read and you shall see.
I was born in the dead center of India, but had the
privilege of spending time both in the north and south. Therefore I
have been able to sample and absorb to some extent the vastly diverse
cultures and languages of both these regions (the very quality that
imparts tremendous richness to our country’s heritage,) —a phenomenon
perhaps not seen anywhere else in the world.
After immigrating to the United States in my early
twenties and spending several years in this country, whenever I travel
back to my homeland now, I find that I appreciate my roots a lot more.
Still there is so much to see and learn, that a lifetime won’t suffice.
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