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Follow on Google News | ![]() Infibeam.com takes Pre-orders of As Sweet As Honey by Indira GanesanIndira Ganesan's latest novel As Sweet As Honey is about story about Marriage, Family, Cultures, and Traditions narrated through the eyes of a young Asian Woman. It is a story about a girl called Meterling.
By: Infibeam.com Later in the novel, Meterling discovers soon after her to-be husband Archer's death that she is pregnant. Archer's brother marries Meterling to support her and takes her to London along with him. Thus begins the journey of an Eastern woman in the Western world. The novel brings forth the abyss that can never be bridged between the two cultures of east and west. The first half of the novel is narrated by one of Meterling's younger cousin sister and several other family members. It is only once she goes to London that you get to hear Meterling's voice. The entire story is evolved out of conversations, view points of the various characters in the ‘stream of consciousness' style of writing. Therefore, this book is considered to be an East Asian homage to Virginia Woolf's famous novel ‘To The Lighthouse' which has been written in the same style. Get to how Meterling makes it through in the completely contrasting western world. Infibeam, one of the popular sites for buying books online has this classic book on preorder. http://www.infibeam.com/ ### About Author Indira Ganesan was born in Srirangam, India, and moved to the United States as a child. She graduated from Vassar College and received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently lives in Provincetown, MA. Her previous novels were The Journey and Inheritance. As Sweet As Honey is her latest novel set in the Island of Pi which is also the background in her famous novel Inheritance. End
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