The Taste of Ginger

In the beginning, I appreciated how the main protagonist, Preeti Dasai, feels pressured to get married to an Indian man while living in the United States with her Indian family. In an immigrant family, there are pressures to attend and graduate from a prestigious university as well as to pursue a career with financially stable prospects. Unfortunately, Preeti never got to fully explore her love of photography as a career until after she graduated. I also understand from first hand experience that it's common to identify the host country as your home country and come back to the motherland feeling foreign amongst your own kin while being perceived as a foreigner in the host country. I did assimilate into white American culture to not get bullied or harassed and only know English fluently as my mother tongue. As the story progressed, I couldn't get behind Preeti Dasai and couldn't stand her behavior while she was in India with her family.