DO YOU KNOW ANY GOOD BOYS?
A woman's guide to the arranged marriage
‘So Meeti, do you cook?’
‘Sometimes … Pasta.’
‘How about nice, round rotis?’
If I were a little kid, this could be the moment I flung a toy car at his face.
When Meeti Shroff-Shah recruited her parents to find her a husband, she didn’t think she’d have to meet more than forty men before she was married.
As she waded through biodatas, signed up on matrimonial sites, frequented astrologers, dealt with meddling aunties and made her way through the terrifying arranged-marriage jungle, she discovered within herself a rare kind of perseverance and the very vital ability to laugh at most things.
In her outrageously funny book, Do You Know Any Good Boys?, Meeti guides the reader step by step, latte by latte, on how to brave the process of the modern Indian arranged marriage and emerge triumphant, with spirit intact and ring finger appropriately bedecked.
ON AMAZON INDIA’S LIST OF MOST MEMORABLE BOOKS OF 2016
‘THIS BOOK IS A TEN ON TEN.’
The Hindustan Times
‘MUMBAI WRITER MEETI SHROFF-SHAH’S DEBUT BOOK OFFERS A WITTY TAKE ON THE COMPLEX PROCESS OF AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE.’
The Indian Express
“…THIS PICTURESQUE RAMBLE THROUGH THE INDIAN SOCIAL LANDSCAPE WITH PLENTY OF HUMOUR AND INSIGHT IS WORTH A READ”
The Business Standard
SHOBHA DE
'WHAT A JAUNTY, TRUTHFUL, SPUNKY ACCOUNT! AS A MOTHER OF FOUR DAUGHTERS MYSELF, I COULD CONNECT TO EVERY QUIRKY INCIDENT! SIGH! WHERE ARE ALL THE 'GOOD BOYS' ANYWAY!?'
MONI MOHSIN
'A GENEROUS, FUNNY AND WISE ACCOUNT OF GETTING HITCHED IN INDIA'
