Dollar Bahu by Sudha Murty
Release: November 26th 2008
Format: Kindle
Publisher: Penguin
Source: Amazon
Dollar Bahu Synopsis:
A story of how money corrupts the way people look at one another and how it can tear families 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?
Review:
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This is one of those books that is so predictable and so cliched and has many reasons to be a complete flop. The only reason I liked reading this book was because of Sudha Murty’s writing. There were so many issues with the story where the story shifts from one plot to another plot. Moreover, I didn’t particularly like how the author tries to promote the lifestyles over Indian living overseas in comparison to living in India. Overall, I felt like this was a very weak story and the only saving grace was Sudha Murthy’s writing style.
