Grown-Up Pose
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide, from acclaimed author Sonya Lalli.
Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured by her tight-knit community to get married at a young age to her first serious boyfriend, Anu Desai is now on her own again and feels like she is starting from the beginning.
But Anu doesn't have time to start over. Telling her parents that she was separating from her husband was the hardest thing she's ever done—and she's still dealing with the fallout. She has her young daughter to support and when she invests all of her savings into running her own yoga studio, the feelings of irresponsibility send Anu reeling. She'll be forced to look inside herself to learn what she truly wants.
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In Lalli's sparkling latest (after The Matchmaker's List), an Indian-American woman seeks to claim her independence after separating from her husband. Ten years earlier, 30-year-old Vancouver nurse and yoga devotee Anu Desai married her first love, Neil; now they have a five-year-old daughter, Kanika. Almost a year into their separation, Anu still struggles to acclimate to single life while pushing back against the good girl image she's carefully cultivated for her traditional parents. After a sudden breakup with her boyfriend, Ryan, Anu decides to leave Kanika with Neil and take the trip of a lifetime to find herself. She buys a one-way ticket to stay with her parents in London, where they're living while her mother earns her master's degree, but before leaving, she impulsively sinks her savings into a failing Vancouver yoga studio. The studio and her family are always on her mind during the short trip, while she sees the sights. When a crisis prompts Anu to return home, she realizes that independence doesn't have to come at the cost of her family. Anu's trajectory to reconcile her close-knit family's cultural traditions and expectations with her desire to be a thoroughly modern woman, and most importantly, a role model for her daughter, is vividly realized. Lalli explores the generational divide with sensitivity and humor, and Anu's parents are a particular delight. Readers will root for Anu all the way up through the sweet and satisfying conclusion.
