Arranged Marriage, a collection of short stories first published in 1995, is celebrated author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s debut fiction work. Apart from being a bestseller in the United States, the book won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for fiction, an American Book Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction. Divakaruni, apart from teaching creative writing at a local college, is the coordinator for a helpline for South Asian women. This book reflects h