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How It Happened

Dadi, the imperious matriarch of the Bandian family in Karachi, swears by the virtues of arranged marriage. All her ancestors — including a dentally and optically challenged aunt — have been perfectly well-served by such arrangements. But her grandchildren are harder to please.

Haroon, the apple of her eye, has to suffer half a dozen candidates until he finds the perfect Shia-Syed girl of his dreams. But it is Zeba, his sister, who has the tougher time, as she is accosted by a bevy of suitors, including a potbellied cousin and a banker who reeks of sesame oil.

Told by the witty, hawk-eyed Saleha, the precocious youngest sibling, this is a romantic, amusing and utterly delightful story about how marriages are made and unmade — -not in heaven, but in the drawing room and over the phone.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 311
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780670086467
  • Genres
  • fiction, contemporary, pakistan, humor, romance, own, india
  • Release date
  • 2012