Destination Wedding
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the internationally bestselling author of The Windfall. . . . What could go wrong at a lavish Indian wedding with your best friend and your entire family?
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Windfall. . . . What could go wrong at a lavish Indian wedding with your best friend and your entire family?A witty and romantic novel perfect for all readers. Terry McMillan
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE AND NEW YORK POST
When Tina Das finds herself at a crossroads both professionally and personally, she wonders if a weeklong trip to Delhi for her cousin s lavish wedding might be just the right kind of escape. Maybe a little time away from New York will help get her mind straight about her stalled career, her recent breakup, and her nagging suspicion that she ll never feel as at home in America as she does in India. Tina hopes this destination wedding, taking place at Delhi s poshest country club, Colebrookes, will be the perfect way to reflect and unwind.
But with the entire Das family in attendance, a relaxing vacation is decidedly not in the cards. Her amicably divorced parents are each using the occasion to explore new love interests for her mother, a white American boyfriend, for her father, an Indian widow arranged by an online matchmaker and Tina s squarely in the middle. A former fling is unexpectedly on the guest list, a work opportunity is blurring the lines of propriety on several fronts, and her best friend Marianne s terrible penchant for international playboys is poised to cause all sorts of chaos back home. The accommodations are swanky, the alcohol is top-shelf, but this family wedding may be more drama than Tina can bear and could finally force her to make the choices she s spent much of her life avoiding.
Infused with warmth and charm, Destination Wedding grapples with the nuances of family, careers, belonging, and how we find the people who make a place feel like home.
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Sunday Night, 11 p.m.JFK Airport: Their Flight Is Delayed Due to Technical Reasons and Everyone Is Secretly Wishing Airlines Didn t Announce That and Make All the Passengers Nervous
I cannot believe my mother is here with her boyfriend and I m here alone, Tina Das said to her best friend, Marianne Laing, in the British Airways business-class lounge at JFK. Tina, in the hope that she would be able to sleep through the first leg of the flight to Heathrow, had rimless glasses on instead of her usual contacts. She never needed much makeup thanks to her thick eyebrows, which had been a liability when she was younger but were very fashionable now and gave her face all the drama it needed. She was wearing black North Face sweatpants that cinched at the ankle, a gray, long-sleeved T-shirt, and black-and-white Adidas sneakers. It was hot in the lounge so her Guess fur vest was hanging off the chair behind her.
A bowl full of nuts was on the table in between them. Tina picked up a handful while staring out of the window and tossed them all into her mouth and started chewing before she realized she had eaten several whole pistachios, with shells. The hard, cracked pieces pierced her mouth and she spat them out. A grumpy old man appeared out of nowhere with a broom and shook his head at her as he swept up the pistachio shells.
I didn t know they had shells, Tina said apologetically.
The man said nothing but kept looking at her as he swept, his broom knocking her foot aside.
It isn t my fault, Tina said to him again but he didn t respond.
The man walked away and Tina turned to Marianne and said, At the price of these tickets, the nuts really shouldn t have shells.
Marianne was applying lip balm and laughing. She was so good at putting on makeup that it was hard to say whether or not she had any on, but the smattering of brown freckles across her nose was visible and, despite the fact that it was November, still had a velvety brownness
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they usually acquired over the summer because she had recently been to San Francisco for Tom s college roommate s wedding. Marianne was wearing similar sweatpants and a plain black long-sleeved T-shirt, and a red shawl was draped over the back of her chair.
We re like world-weary businesswomen who travel internationally twice a month and are just so over it, Marianne said. I feel like I should be impatiently clacking away on a laptop but I have no work to do this week and I bet Tom s fast asleep.
Marianne looked down at her phone and the itinerary that had been sent by the wedding planner.
It feels like we re going to have a lot of free time, Marianne said. There aren t that many events listed here. I thought Indian weddings had days and days of events.
I think these days most people just pick and choose what parts they want to do. Shefali wanted to walk down the aisle in a white dress but my aunt put her foot down and said she could pick and choose what she wanted but she couldn t change religions, Tina said. We ll have time to explore the city, though.
Marianne nodded as she cracked open a pistachio and ate it and played with the shells in one hand.
Their flight was two hours late so they were on glass number three of champagne and plate number two of mini sandwiches. Even on Tina s decent income, these business-class tickets were prohibitively expensive. She had managed to book an economy flight using her own money and then used her miles to upgrade herself. Tina was the vice president of development for Pixl, a streaming network for which she sought video content, a term she hated but a job that paid her enough to live alone in a t
We re like world-weary businesswomen who travel internationally twice a month and are just so over it, Marianne said. I feel like I should be impatiently clacking away on a laptop but I have no work to do this week and I bet Tom s fast asleep.
Marianne looked down at her phone and the itinerary that had been sent by the wedding planner.
It feels like we re going to have a lot of free time, Marianne said. There aren t that many events listed here. I thought Indian weddings had days and days of events.
I think these days most people just pick and choose what parts they want to do. Shefali wanted to walk down the aisle in a white dress but my aunt put her foot down and said she could pick and choose what she wanted but she couldn t change religions, Tina said. We ll have time to explore the city, though.
Marianne nodded as she cracked open a pistachio and ate it and played with the shells in one hand.
Their flight was two hours late so they were on glass number three of champagne and plate number two of mini sandwiches. Even on Tina s decent income, these business-class tickets were prohibitively expensive. She had managed to book an economy flight using her own money and then used her miles to upgrade herself. Tina was the vice president of development for Pixl, a streaming network for which she sought video content, a term she hated but a job that paid her enough to live alone in a t
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Autoren-Porträt von Diksha Basu
Diksha Basu is the author of The Windfall. Originally from New Delhi, India, she now divides her time between New York City and Mumbai.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Diksha Basu
- 2020, Internationale Ausgabe, 304 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Ballantine Books
- ISBN-10: 0593237730
- ISBN-13: 9780593237731
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for The Windfall Charming . . . What Kevin Kwan did for rich-people problems, Diksha Basu does for trying-to-be-rich-people problems. People
A delightful comedy of errors. NPR, Weekend Edition
Ultra-charming. Vogue
I almost fell out of bed laughing. Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians
A fun and heartfelt comedy of manners. Rolling Stone
Though money doesn t necessarily buy the Jhas happiness, it delivers readers plenty of laughs and more. Esquire
Endearing, astute. The Christian Science Monitor
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