Marrying Anita

By Anita Jain
307 pages
Marrying Anita is a story of a woman's desperate attempt to find a husband. Despite her beauty, Anita had a difficult time finding a soul mate. She was pressed to get married by her parents who believed that marriage should be a part of life. Moving to India was her final effort in finding Mr. Right which turned out to be unsuccessful.
Reading this book reminds me of my close girl friends in Indonesia. Most of them are in their early 40s and are still single. One friend told me, "it was not easy to capture a man's heart".

With an imbalanced ratio of men and women in the world, it is getting harder to find a suitable man, let alone a perfect man. I have known many women who chose to be single than ended up married to wrong men. My best friend is one of them, she said, "it is better to be happy alone, than to have a miserable marriage". My step mother is another example, she chose to stay single until she found a right man, my father, in her late 40s.
Marrying Anita is also about the changes in India. India with 1,156,897,766 people is now more liberal in many aspects. Many young people do not hesitate to have premarital sex and homosexual are readily accepted.

This book describes the fun and sad aspects of the difficulty that modern women faced in finding their soul mates in today's busy world.

Anita Jain is a journalist who has traveled to many cities and currently lives in New Delhi, India.

To know more about the author, please visit : Anita Jain.