Managing domestic life and dream career in Kavita Daswani’s The Village Bride of Beverly Hills
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alienation, domesticity, migration, rootlessness, self-identityAbstract
Kavita Daswani’s second novel The Village Bride of Beverly Hills, also published as Everything Happen for a Reason is one of her romantic comedies. The novel deals with Priya married to Sanjay. After marriage she moves to Los Angeles with her husband. In America she encounters her husband’s demanding parents, who want her to be a good Indian wife, and is expected to fulfill all the needs of his family members. Priya wants to be a journalist, but her husband’s family forbids it. She eventually takes a job as a receptionist at a Hollywood Gossip magazine. She turns herself as an American by wearing western attire and begins to rethink the role of women in society and her role as a wife. When she gets a chance to interview a Hollywood star, she becomes a successful reporter. Her new career sets her newly found views of her family and husband, leading to confrontation.
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