{"id":3788,"date":"2016-11-17T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2016-11-19T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T22:08:27","slug":"279g-girl-living-in-purdah-has-arranged-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/279g-girl-living-in-purdah-has-arranged-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"279G: Girl living in Purdah has arranged marriage (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A story about a teen or pre-teen girl from\u00a0 who lives in purdah (in India, I believe) who is being prepared for marriage.\u00a0 She gets pierced (ears and nose I think) and undergoes other ceremonies that are apparently traditional for a girl her age.\u00a0 She belongs to a well-off family, and her father has been indulgent and somewhat spoiled her up to this point, but now a young man has been selected for her, and she is expected to assume adult responsibilities and accept this inevitable fate maturely.\u00a0 I think an older female relative (aunt, or grandmother) attempts to soothe her anxieties by breaking tradition and allowing her to meet the young man&#8211;chaperoned, of course&#8211;before the ceremony.\u00a0 I seem to recall the book is rather open-ended, leaving the reader with a slightly optimistic feeling that the main character may face a happy future with her prospective spouse, despite her reluctance for the whole thing.\u00a0 I have a vague feeling that there were some tiger cubs were involved somehow in the story (maybe one of the outrageous gifts her father had given her?)\u00a0 I can&#8217;t remember the title, but I think it had the word &#8220;Time&#8221; in it, and the girl&#8217;s name, which for some reason nags at me as having started with the letter &#8220;Y&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story about a teen or pre-teen girl from\u00a0 who lives in purdah (in India, I believe) who is being prepared for marriage.\u00a0 She gets pierced (ears and nose I think) and undergoes other ceremonies that are apparently traditional for a girl her age.\u00a0 She belongs to a well-off family, and her father has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,18,50,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}