Immigrant: A Novel

In a world of rapidly changing values and traditions, an Indian woman enters into an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows and moves to distant CanadaThirty-year-old Nina is an English teacher living alone in Jangpura, India.

With diminishing prospects, she agrees to an arranged union.

Her groom is the Indian-born Ananda, who lives in Canada.

He once dreamed of becoming a doctor but settled for dentistry.

He is lonely, and also in want of a spouse.Their life together is not what either expected.

Unable to find work teaching in Nova Scotia, Nina takes a job at the local library.

Ananda is troubled by his own response to the sexual aspects of their relationship.

Assimilating into a new culture pales in comparison to the trials of marriageits ups and downs, its inevitable compromises . . . and the temptations of illicit passion.