Book of the Day
Vinuta the main character captures the readers heart and fills you with the sense of engulfing thoughts of her beautiful home at Dharward. The nightingale who slogs at her own house to be surrounded by kith and kin is deprived of love and affection due to the loss of her parents. Her only property is the house that she holds dear.
Chandru is lured by the American dream, a dream of greed for the green note. He as a Civil Engineer feels his destiny is in the Land of the Riches. On reaching there gets smitten and finds ways to remain in the foreign land to acquire the most-acquitted Green Card Status, stooping to low levels. His Green card gives him a ticket to marry a hot-shot Jamuna and there forms a plot for Gouramma to reveal her vices for wealth of the dollar world.
What emerges is a typical saas-bahu relationship, a gory dollar craze gets Gowramma to compare the simple and loving Vinuta to the superficial and rich Jamuna. Chandru and Dinesh have less to say and Dinesh is a typical Indian husband who says, "You know my mother, just let it pass".
Gowramma comes to her senses during her visit to the Dollarland and also gets to meet many people during her 1 year stay to nurse her grand child. However, there are no twists or turns but for the one where Dinesh gets lucky to marry Vinuta and Chandru misses the bus as he boarded his flight to the US.
The plot is a similar one as we all have come across stories and anecdotes that are similar here, the only one I have heard of but was not covered in the book was about the short-term marriages with the Visa's in mind.
A good read on the whole!
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