Anne Cherian has been closely associated with Asian American issues. She has taught for the Asian American Studies Department at UC Berkeley, as well as being Associate Director for the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco.

If you’d like to contact Anne, please email her at cherian.anne@yahoo.com

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A Good Indian Wife
A Novel by Anne Cherian

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A clash of hearts and cultures set against the divergent backdrops of rural India and downtown San Francisco.

Handsome anesthesiologist Neel prides himself on his decisiveness, both in and out of the operating room. So when he agrees to return to India to visit his ailing grand-father, he is sure he’ll be able to resist his family’s pleas that he marry a “good” Indian girl. With a girlfriend and a promising career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an arranged marriage.

Leila is a thirty-year-old teacher in Neel’s family’s village who has watched too many prospective husbands come and go to think her newest suitor will be any different. She is well past prime marrying age; her family has no money for a dowry; and then there’s the matter of an old friendship with a Muslim boy named Janni.

Neel and Leila struggle to reconcile their own desires with the expectations of others in this riveting story of two people, two countries, and two ways of life that may be more compatible than they seem.

Anne Cherian was born and raised in Jamshedpur, India. She graduated from Bombay and Bangalore Universities and received graduate degrees in journalism and comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

May 2008 / hardcover / ISBN 978-0-393-06523-7
5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ / 320 pages / Fiction