That last one really slowed the pace down in a frustrating way. I felt quite clearly that the author’s writing improved from “Sugarbread” to “Erotic Stories,” which is great for her!! For “Sugarbread,” I had trouble getting into the story and the narrative style at the start, because of some abrupt and slightly confusing flashbacks, and the overload of descriptions to “set the scene” of 90s Singapore. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected-and exciting-kind.Īs 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.A slow, beautiful read! I love love LOVED the author’s most recent book, “Erotic Stories for Punjabi Women,” so I really wanted to read her earlier stuff especially as they are set in Singapore!!!
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. 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.īecause of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. 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. Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub.
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.
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