Right up there for Zing, Zang and Zany! Hugely entertaining!

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The Singles Table (Marriage Game #3) by Sara Desai   

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On the surface a light hearted story but with underlying depths, all wrapped up in Bollywood like hilarity. Indeed I can’t get several momentous moments out of my head (including the steamy bits)

The oh so colorful Zara Patel shooting the committed game player and exponent, Jay Dayal, in the rear at her cousin’s bachelor-bachelorette paintball party, even as she ogled him. As her friend Parvati Chopra calls it, the occasion is “alpha central” with all the male testosterone about.

Ok, Zara is definitely catastrophe prone, even if she is a super smart lawyer. She just moves to the beat of a different drum, which is why the Cruz & Lovitt law firm, injury specialists, is such a great fit for Zara. There’s “a partner who wears Yoda ski hats and carries a custom lightsaber? Another partner who wears bike shorts and Rollerblades around the office?” Seriously terrifying images!

The moments of Zara’s exuberance lifted spirts and brought a smile if not a deep throated chuckle to my lips. The Art show event is not to be missed.

There’s just so many hilarious, if not deranged moments, leavened with serious reflective moments.

The daughter of divorced parents, Zara has never recovered from the anguish of that. To the extent that she doesn’t want a committed relationship. She  is always seated at the singles table at weddings and that’s fine. Comittment has her running. 

As she says to Jay when she explains her role as a matchmaker, “I believe in love and romance for everyone else…I have a serial-dating habit, eclectic taste, and poor judgment when it comes to men.”

Jay Dayal is part owner of a security firm and is too busy for a relationship. Especially with such a seemingly ditzy number as Zara. But there’s something about her! She’s warm, true, disarmingly charming, and funny. Such a wonderful character.

Of course there’s the wonderful obligatory aunties, the warm extended family that encompasses all.

A joyous, witty ride with undercurrents of pain, of  dealing with the past to begin a future.

Loved every minute of this Desai illuminating, starry eyed read.


A Berkley penguinrandomhouse ARC via NetGalley 
Please note: Quotes taken from an advanced reading copy maybe subject to change


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