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Girl Alone, Rupa Gulab :
Aarti’s mantra for life goes like this: “Men may
come and men may go but cough syrup goes on forever.” Single
in the city of Mumbai, this English literature graduate from
Kolkata
(read intellectual snob) has one vice - falling for the wrong
kind of men. And her only support system -apart from her two
hostel
pals Mo and Jo - is a bottle of cough syrup. After being dumped
by “Low Life”, Aarti dates and gets dumped by “Software”
and then she finally meets “New Guy”. But emotionally
insecure Aarti feels that commitment-phobe “New Guy”
is about to be swallowed up by temptress “Silicone”
Sheena. So she bolts and runs. Only to realise a universal truth
: Men only want you when you don’t want them!
Brief : Short and
simple. More than 204 pages of this Shakespeare-spouting protagonist
would be difficult to handle. Penguin, Rs. 225. |
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