
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Soneela Nankani
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Deepti Gupta
The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama - an Indian This Is Where I Leave You - about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their mother to rest.
The British-born Punjabi Shergill sisters Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirnia were never close and barely got along growing up and now have grown even further apart as adults. Rajni, a school principal, is a stickler for order. Jezmeen, a 30-year-old struggling actress, fears her big break may never come. Shirina, the peacemaking "good" sister, married into wealth and enjoys a picture-perfect life.
On her deathbed, their mother voices one last wish: that her daughters will make a pilgrimage together to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out her final rites. After a trip to India with her mother long ago, Rajni vowed never to return. But she’s always been a dutiful daughter and cannot, even now, refuse her mother’s request. Jezmeen has just been publicly fired from her television job, so the trip to India is a welcome break to help her pick up the pieces of her broken career. Shirina’s in-laws are pushing her to make a pivotal decision about her married life; time away will help her decide whether to meekly obey or to bravely stand up for herself for the first time.
Arriving in India, these sisters will make unexpected discoveries about themselves, their mother, and their lives - and learn the real story behind the trip Rajni took with their mother long ago - a momentous journey that resulted in Mum never being able to return to India again.
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is a female take on the Indian travel narrative. "I was curious about how different the trip would be if it were undertaken by women, who are vulnerable to different dangers in a male-dominated society," Balli Kaur Jaswal writes. "I also wanted to explore the tensions between tradition and modernity in immigrant communities, and particularly how those tensions play out among women like these sisters, who are the first generation to be raised outside of India."
Powerful, emotionally evocative, and wonderfully atmospheric, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is a charming and thoughtful story that illuminates the bonds of family, sisterhood, and heritage that tether us despite our differences. Funny and heartbreaking, it is a reminder of the truly important things we must treasure in our lives.
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Three stories with one thing in common. Mom.
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Horrible Narration
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I did relate to the story line though. It was tough growing up in the 70s and having to behave in a particular manner to appease judgmental relatives. Growing up in England was just as challenging as growing up in India with all the backward, patriarchal attitudes.
It was nice that the sisters came together at the end and supported each other.
I should have bought the book!! Or Audible should have contacted me to narrate!
Sadly Disappointed by Narration
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Performance was ok. She got the British accents down but some characters were supposed to be Australian and they ended up having an American accent.
Overall, it wasn’t something I just couldn’t stop listening to. I found myself trying to get through the story just to say I finished but it wasn’t horrible either!
Average
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slow starter, but was great once the characters we
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You have to give it time
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Jaswal Does It Again
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Hard to get though
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Absolutely ruined by narrator
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