![]() ![]() With 35-year-old Priya (a single, medieval history professor) and 30-year-old New York attorney Nikesh still reeling from the news that their parents have split, both Suresh and Lata make efforts to move on. It was everything Lata wanted, and she fought Suresh’s basic cheap, gloomy nature every step of the way, but when the house was done, it seemed to be a monument to their lifeless marriage. ![]() Lata has been a good wife and mother, and her arranged marriage in India to Suresh has been in that sense a success, and with the kids born in America, grown and gone, Suresh and Lata built their ‘dream’ home. The story unfolds through the voices of the four family members. Lata, Suresh, daughter Priya and son Nikesh are facing emotional hurdles that they must cross in order to develop and move on in their lives. But then again, perhaps all 4 members of the Raman family qualify as late bloomers. The Late Bloomers in Deppa Varadarajan’s light-hearted novel may be Lata and Suresh Raman who now in their 50s, are divorced. ![]() Then they grew up and didn’t care what you thought about anything–had zero interest in hearing your answers to questions they didn’t ask.” When they asked you questions and listened carefully to your answers–even if those answers were made up and wrong. “It was all so much easier when your kids were little children. ![]()
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