Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (Compact Disc)

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East meets West in this delightful story as a young woman navigates the divide between the Sikh culture of her parents and being a modern London woman. Nikki quit law school, frustrated with the dry lectures and eager to be doing something with her life.  Abandoning a future as an attorney disappoints her father who was so proud of his independent minded child.  Their riff has yet to be healed when her father dies suddenly on a trip to India.  Nikki is working as a barmaid and living in a flat over the pub, wondering when she will figure out what she wants to do with her life.  Her sister Mindi is an educated, attractive young woman. Mindi wants an arranged marriage, to follow the traditions of her Sikh heritage. Nikki is appalled.  Nevertheless Mindi persuades Nikki to take a flyer out to the Sikh community in Southall.  While there, Nikki sees an advertisement for an instructor to be hired to teach a creative writing course for women in the community center.  This seems to be right up Nikki’s alley; impulsively she applies and is hired.  However she soon finds out the job is less straightforward than anticipated.  The widows who show up for class are illiterate; in order to achieve creative writing they would have to first learn to write.  Creative storytelling is another matter, they have that definitely covered.  Having reached a certain age and being widowed, they are like invisible women, no longer expected to have desires.  What the women have on their minds is sex, attentive sex, the kind of sex they would enjoy.  And so begins a class of erotic stories (yes, the stories are explicitly erotic).  The naughty story class gains in popularity. As Nikki becomes more accepted in the community, she discovers dark secrets involving the death of women. 

As the story unfolds, the theme of the rights of women, especially the right to choose, is championed in this very different tale about a group of widows who take into their hearts a scrappy modern woman whose belief in justice changes their lives in profound ways.

— Deon Stonehouse

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A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages--a spicy and alluring mix of Together Tea and Calendar Girls.

Every woman has a secret life . . .

Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West 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.

Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of 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 offers 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.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781538416792
ISBN-10: 1538416794
Publisher: HarperAudio
Publication Date: June 13th, 2017
Language: English