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03209aam a22005294i 4500 001 77907754AE4911E78040922A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171011010020 007 tb 008 170517t20172017meu ed 000 1 eng 010 $a 2017023998 020 $a 143284332X 020 $a 9781432843328 035 $a (OCoLC)987492022 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BTCTA $d ORX $d RIOSL $d NDS $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 10 $a PR9619.3.J37 $b E76 2017 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Jaswal, Balli Kaur, $e author. 245 10 $a Erotic stories for Punjabi widows / $c Bali Kaur Jaswal. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 503 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 340 $n large print $2 rda 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice 520 $a Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she's spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father's death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London's close-knit Punjabi community. Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected -- and exciting -- kind. As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of highly conservative young men who have appointed themselves the community's "moral police." But when the widows' gossip offers shocking insights into the death of a young wife -- a modern woman like Nikki -- and some of the class erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that threatens them all. 650 0 $a Panjabis (South Asian people) $z England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fathers $x Death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Immigrant families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Creative writing $x Study and teaching $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Erotic stories $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Widows $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Scandals $v Fiction. 651 0 $a England $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice. 941 $a 6 945 $a lpt 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012030224.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210908010041.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20190416011114.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720050219.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20180719025347.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20180118012154.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=77907754AE4911E78040922A97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search