Crosspost: Cloud 9 Minus One by Sangeeta Mall
Written October 5, 2015, published on Feminist Quill Title: Cloud 9 Minus One Author: Sangeeta Mall Year of Publication: 2009 Series: N/A Goodreads Rating (Avg.): 2.9 Goodreads Rating (Mine): 1 !SPOILER ALERT! Plot Description: The protagonist receives an invitation to the ten year reunion of her post-graduate batch from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and finds that she doesn’t want anything to do with it. Shruthi Narayan still carries emotional baggage from her days at IIMB, and decides to forego the invitation. Or at least, she attempts to do so, until her husband finds out about the invitation and overrules her decision. Her husband is, needless to say, one of those delightful and loving people who nonetheless appear to have great difficulty grasping the notion of respecting their spouse’s opinion regarding matters in her own life (rather than just doing whatever the hell he feels like doing). Shruthi claims her h...