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Title Marriage material / Sathnam Sanghera.
Author Sanghera, Sathnam, 1976- author.
Publication Info. New York, New York : Europa Editions, 2016.
©2015
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  FIC SAN    Check Shelves
 Southwest  FIC SAN    Check Shelves
Description 323 pages ; 21 cm
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Summary A push or kick of the door triggers something which is more grating car alarm than charming shop bell. To Arjan Banga, returning to the Black Country after the unexpected death of his father, his family's corner shop represents everything he has tried to leave behind - a lethargic pace of life, insular rituals and ways of thinking. But when his mother insists on keeping the shop open, he finds himself being dragged back, forced into big decisions about his imminent marriage back in London and uncovering the history of his broken family - the elopement and mixed-race marriage of his aunt Surinder, the betrayals and loyalties, loves and regrets that have played out in the shop over more than fifty years. This book tells the story of three generations of a family through the prism of a Wolverhampton corner shop - itself a microcosm of the South Asian experience in the country: a symbol of independence and integration, but also of darker realities.
Subject Families -- Fiction.
Convenience stores -- Fiction.
Panjabis (South Asian people) -- England -- Fiction.
Wolverhampton (England) -- Fiction.
Convenience stores. (OCoLC)fst00877156
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Panjabis (South Asian people) (OCoLC)fst01052176
England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
England -- Wolverhampton. (OCoLC)fst01209153
Genre Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 1609453077 (pbk.) : $18.00
9781609453077 (pbk.)