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Title
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Dollar Bahu

Author
:
Sudha Murty
ISBN
:
9780143103769
Book No
:
6348
Status
:
Available
Shelf
:
IN-R3S2
Category
:
Indian Writing
Subcategory
:
Indian Writing
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Summary

A Story Of How Money Corrupts The Way People Look At One Another And How It Can Almost Tear A Family Apart Vinuta Marries Girish, A Bank Clerk, And Starts Living With His Family In Bangalore. She Adjusts To Her New Family Well, Looking After Her Husband, Father-In-Law And Mother-In-Law Gouramma, Not Taking To Heart Her Mother-In-Law S Constant Picking. But When Girish S Elder Brother Chandru, Who Is In The Us, Decides To Get Married, Vinuta Has To Listen To The Constant Comparisons Made Between Her And Chandru S Wife, The Dollar Bahu , Whose Husband Earns The Valuable Dollars That Has Brought The Family Its Recent Affluence. Vinuta Slowly Loses Her Peace Of Mind And Health. Then Gouramma Decides To Visit Her Us-Based Son And Daughter-In-Law. Once There, She Sees How Liberating Life Can Be, Away From The Strict Norms That Govern Indian Middle-Class Life. But She Also Begins To Understand That Mere Dollars Cannot Buy The Love And Respect That She Gets As Her Due Back In India. Does Gouramma Forge A New Relationship With Vinuta And Can Vinuta Forgive And Forget The Past?