Friday, August 29, 2008

You Are Here - Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

Title: You Are Here
Author:Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
Published by : Penguin Books India
Published : August 2008
Cover Price : Rs 199.00
ISBN13 : 9780143064343
Edition : Paperback
Extent : 272 pp
Classification : Fiction

'The trouble with my life is that it's like a bra strap when you put your bra on wrong . . .'

At twenty-five, life's innumerable entanglements are getting to Arshi.

Her blonde American step-mom's trying too hard (she's taken to welcoming guests with a traditional aarti). The gorgeous guy who has Arshi all flushed and dreamy doesn't seem to be trying at all (he's the Ice Prince who thaws at his own convenience). Her best friend Deeksha's going to be married in a few months (Arshi's still in the process of finding the correct labels for the men in her life). And, her otherwise unruffled, cocktail-concocting flatmate Topsy's getting testier by the day because her conservative family will never approve of the darling guy she's in love with. What's more, there's a cheating ex-boyfriend, a weepy neighbour and a heinous boss who need to be told where to get off.

Her head spinning wildly with the sheer gravity of her life's quandaries, Arshi realizes what she needs most now (besides a barrelful of alcohol and some serious postcoital cuddling) are just a few epiphanies of the right kind . . .

Saucy, wise and audaciously candid, You Are Here introduces a bold and irresistible new voice.

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