{"product_id":"0062645110","title":"Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel","description":"\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eReese Witherspoon’s Book Club Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery woman has a secret life . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikki 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRomance\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eErotica\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eCollections \u0026amp; Anthologies\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":45262723743934,"sku":"0062645110-4","price":4.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - Acceptable","offer_id":49258226942142,"sku":"0062645110-5","price":2.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/91McyGufvPL.jpg?v=1754102129","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0062645110","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}