"Arranged Marriage" ends with an "Affair"

Well, that's the last story in my maiden (read) novel, and maybe my own affair with books has just begun!!!

This was a collection of stories by Chitra Banerjee, all revolving around diasporic sensibilites. Though my understanding of literature is quite amateurish as of now , the stories score very well in building up emotions in a very sensitive manner. One cannot but admire the capacity of a writer to understand human sensitivity, put it in the context of a cultural sensibility and then create an imagery to which the reader can visualize and relate to.

An interesting point is how writers create the imagery; it is the seemingly unimportant detail e.g. "the waitress was wearing a light-blue dress..."; now, this helps a reader create the whole plot in his mind while she reads on, and the story is so much easier to hold on to.

Anyways, am just hoping that this habit which I had been trying to inculcate for a long time lasts for as long as possible, and I can do justice to being the son of a literature professor!!