Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Reese's Book Club Pick

A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women’s lives at all ages. Nikki, a daughter of Indian immigrants who has spent the past twenty years trying to distance herself from her traditional upbringing finds herself teaching a creative writing class at the community center. The class is made up of proper Sikh widows who are looking to earn basic English literacy. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected—and exciting—kind. When the widows’ gossip offers shocking insights into the death of a young wife and some of the class erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that threatens them all.