![]() ![]() For example, as the narrator feigns sleeping, he hears his mother sobbing. The child’s father, a foreman at a local printing press, makes his abuse covert enough that the child only notices it through behavioral changes in his mother. The first story, “The Bats,” is told from the perspective of an anonymous seven-year-old who gradually becomes aware that his mother suffers from domestic abuse. The anthology became well known for refuting clichés and archetypes about arranged marriages while subtly critiquing them. ![]() The stories do not attempt to make a moral claim about the millennia-old tradition rather, they constitute a mosaic of perspectives that validate its lived experience in the modern world. Each of the eleven stories is told by a different narrator, most often a husband, wife, or close family member who observes different aspects of marriages that are both functional and dysfunctional, loving and abusive. Arranged Marriage (1995) is an anthology of short stories on the subject of traditional Eastern arranged marriages by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. ![]()
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