Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Reese's Book Club Pick -- Balli Kaur Jaswal

<p><strong>Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Pick</strong><br/></p> <p><strong>A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women's lives at all ages--a spicy and alluring mix of <em>Together Tea</em> and <em>Calendar Girls.</em></strong></p><p><em>Every woman has a secret life . . .</em></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of