Mom
in the City' is a new novel by Kaushalya Saptharishi which is
expected to hit the stands in September 2013. Mom in the City is a
light and humorous work classified as Mom literature. The publishers
of course, claim that this novel is the first of its kind in India.
Well, claims are claims. What readers need at the end of the day is
just a work of good fiction that must entertain them, surprise them,
enthrall them and give a reason to think. Mom in the City has to pass
through these parameters.
The
description of the book reads like this: When
Ira enrolls her 2-year-old son Abhi at Bumblebees, a posh playschool
in Lutyens’s Delhi, little does she know what she’s getting
herself into. The other moms are everything she’s
not—Manolo-strutting, couture-sporting, perennially mani-pedicured
women who zip around in sleek cars, hire the latest pop star for
their kids’ birthday parties, take off to exotic locales at the
drop of a hat, and are lost without their help.
Ira
is at once fascinated, amused, and repulsed by their glittering
lifestyles, and tries hard to match steps with them. In her eagerness
to be accepted in this circle, Ira lets slip a lie about her
marriage. A lie, if found out, could destroy her social position and
lead to her being ostracized from this tight clique.
Mom
in the City,
thus,
is
an intimate and humorous portrait of a single mother battling it out
in Delhi’s precarious cultural fabric.
Kaushalya
Saptharishi is an editor with Aleph Publishers. This is her second
book. Published by Ebury press, Mom in the City is priced Rs 199.
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