TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaswal,Balli Kaur
TI  - EROTIC STORIES FOR PUNJABI WIDOWS
SN  - 9780008209919
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Panjabis (South Asian people)
KW  - Fiction.
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Creative writing
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Women teachers
KW  - Widows
KW  - Erotic stories, English
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Social life and customs
N2  - Every woman has a secret life . . .Nikki, a modern young Punjabi, lives in cosmopolitan London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she's spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life.When her father's death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London's close-knit Punjabi community.The proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn English, not short-story writing. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected--and exciting--kind.As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of highly conservative young men who have appointed themselves the community's "moral police." But when the widows' gossip offer shocking insights into the death of a young wife--a modern woman like Nikki--and some of the class erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that threatens them all.
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