Imaginary Men
Anjali Banerjee, . . Downtown, $13 (236pp) ISBN 978-1-4165-0943-1
A desperate lie leads to true love in Banerjee's predictable but fun debut. At the Kolkata, India, wedding of her younger sister, Indian-American matchmaker Lina, who lives in San Francisco, gets so fed up with her great-aunt's talk of arranged marriages that she tells everyone she's already engaged. Too bad Lina isn't even dating anyone, much less the rich, cosmopolitan fellow named Raja she claims as her fiancé (she invents him, based on the real Raja Presad, a prince she met at her sister's wedding). In what becomes a
Reviewed on: 08/15/2005
Genre: Fiction
Other - 256 pages - 978-1-4391-8454-7