The Namesake meets Sex and the City in this funny, revealing account of the author's madcap journey through Manhattan bars and Kashmir war zones in search of a husband Jain's April '05 article in New York Magazine about her decision to try arranged marriage was among the most read and e-mailed of that month. As one reader put it, this topic is of interest to 'anyone who has ever been in, wanted to be in, or knows someone who's been in a relationship' For fans of Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Anita Jain, a New York-based Indian-American journalist, is single. For years she has trusted the Western way of finding a husband, but maybe there's something in arranged marriages after all. So she's traveling to India in search of a perfect husband, the old-fashioned way. Will she find a suitable man? If so, will he please her interfering family? Is the new urban Indian culture all that different from New York? And is any of this worth the effort? Marrying Anita is a refreshingly honest look at the modern search for a mate set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernizing New India.