The Vague Womans's Handbook
Dec 2013 · Harper Collins
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They are bad with directions; they never know when the credit card bill is due. They have perfected the art of turning over a new leaf tomorrow. Meet the vague women in this delightful first novel that doesn't star a woman looking for the right man - because she's already found him! At twenty-two, Sharmila Chatterjee has just married her sweetheart of a few years, Abhimanyu Mishra, a somewhat eccentric if handsome twenty-three-and-a-half year old with obscure academic interests and a small fellowship that never arrives on time. They start a household in a tiny rented flat, learning to fend for themselves in the big, bad and snotty world of south Delhi, with penny-pinching landlords, some romance, and a lot of anxiety. At fifty-two, Indira Sen is not sure just how she meandered to where she finds herself now. A senior government officer and single mother, she lives with her daughter and three opinionated old people in a rambling house, drives a battered car, and has a history of credit-card induced shopaholism. The Vague Woman's Handbook is a story told with equal parts of humour, hysteria and tenderness, about the sparkling friendship between two women as they hurtle through life and its mini-crises while trading secrets in the art of survival.
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November 4, 2020
This is the kind of book that breathes life in all it's shades. Lucid language and such a rich description of the mundane. Her writing is so shockingly beautiful and I read it two summers ago!
About the author
Devapriya Roy has degrees in English literature and performance studies from Presidency College, Kolkata, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and adds a languishing Ph.D to her list of mustfinishes. She had her thirty seconds of fame on the idiot box as the Keo Karpin girl. She has worked as an editor with Sahitya Akademi and Routledge Books. She is currently working on a travelogue, The Heat and Dust Project, with her husband Saurav Jha.
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