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A review by chotoranii
My Big, Fat Desi Wedding by Prerna Pickett
5.0
A lovely anthology from 8 different authors about South Asian weddings! All but two are contemporary settings (Fate's Favorites which has soulmarks!) and (A Very Bloody Kalyanam, Tamil vampires!)
I found myself laughing aloud and just really enjoying the ride, especially because all the stories are so specific yet universal for desi weddings and the frame story is that there's an auntie going to all the weddings so you'll get a spectrum of references to her. It's so fun.
General content notes:
A Cynic at a Shaadi is post breakup so FMC is depressed and Going through it, but MMC is an absolute delight. I don't think I've ever read an MMC with so much energy.
Sehra tackles parents who won't go to their son's wedding (to a white woman) and what his younger brother decides to do about it.
The Wedding Biriyani has grief related to parental death and trauma from shitty cheating parent.
A Very Bloody Kalyanam is incredible and critique casteism and has shitty parents. I loved it and wish it was a full length book, when will I get more desi vampires!!!!
I found myself laughing aloud and just really enjoying the ride, especially because all the stories are so specific yet universal for desi weddings and the frame story is that there's an auntie going to all the weddings so you'll get a spectrum of references to her. It's so fun.
General content notes:
A Cynic at a Shaadi is post breakup so FMC is depressed and Going through it, but MMC is an absolute delight. I don't think I've ever read an MMC with so much energy.
Sehra tackles parents who won't go to their son's wedding (to a white woman) and what his younger brother decides to do about it.
The Wedding Biriyani has grief related to parental death and trauma from shitty cheating parent.
A Very Bloody Kalyanam is incredible and critique casteism and has shitty parents. I loved it and wish it was a full length book, when will I get more desi vampires!!!!