Skip to main content
Richland Library logo
  • Events
  • Locations
  • Contact Us
  • Blog
Give

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn
Library Policies© 2023 Richland Library, Richland County, South Carolina
Richland Library logo
  • Events
  • Locations
  • Contact Us
  • Blog
Forgot your card number?
Forgot your PIN?
  • Reset your password

Get A Library Card

  • Print Documents
  • Reserve a Room
  • Social Work
  • Career Services
  • Community Resources
  • Library of Things
  • View All Services
  • Browse free online tools for researching and learning.
  • Most Popular
  • Articles, Journals & Newspapers
  • Books & Literature
  • Business & Careers
  • Children
  • En Español
  • Genealogy & Local History
  • View All Research Categories
  • Browse Staff Picks
  • Get a Recommendation
  • Read Our Blog
  • About Us
  • Work With Us
  • Our Team
  • Locations
  • Our Work
  • Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
  • Library Policies
  • Friends and Foundation
  • Contact Us

Breadcrumb

  • Home  
  • Catalog  
  • The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

A Novel

Jaswal, Balli Kaur, author.
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 312 pages ; 24 cm

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 Shirina--were never close and barely got along growing up, and now as adults, have grown even further apart. Rajni, a school principal is a stickler for order. Jezmeen, a thirty-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.

Subjects:
Sisters -- Fiction.
Women travelers -- Fiction.
Panjabis (South Asian people) -- England -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
ISBN: 9780062645142
Availability
Call Number Location Shelf Location Status
F Jaswal Main (Downtown) Second Level, Fiction In
F Jaswal Main (Downtown) Second Level, Fiction In
F Jaswal Main (Downtown) Second Level, Fiction In
F Jaswal Cooper (Forest Acres) Fiction In
F Jaswal Northeast Indoors Fiction In
F Jaswal Wheatley (Shandon) Fiction In
Hold 1-Click Hold
Book
6 of 6 available
Save to List
Find
eBook
Save to List
Find
Large Print
1 of 1 available
Save to List
Hold 1-Click Hold
Audiobook on CD
0 of 1 available
Save to List
Find
Audiobook
1 of 1 available
Save to List
Find
eBook
Save to List

More Formats

You Might Also Like

America for beginners
America for beginners
Franqui, Leah
Not Interested
The direction of the wind
The direction of the wind
Shah, Mansi
Not Interested
Destination wedding
Destination wedding
Basu, Diksha
Not Interested
The parted Earth
The parted Earth
Enjeti, Anjali
Not Interested
The star-crossed sisters of Tuscany
The star-crossed sisters of Tuscany
Spielman, Lori Nelson
Not Interested
Well-behaved Indian women
Well-behaved Indian women
Dave, Saumya
Not Interested

More By Jaswal, Balli Kaur, author.

Now you see us : a novel
Now you see us : a novel
Jaswal, Balli Kaur, author.
The unlikely adventures of the Shergill sisters : a novel
The unlikely adventures of the Shergill sisters : a novel
Jaswal, Balli Kaur, author.
Erotic stories for Punjabi widows
Erotic stories for Punjabi widows
Jaswal, Balli Kaur, author.
Erotic stories for Punjabi widows
Erotic stories for Punjabi widows
Jaswal, Balli Kaur, author.
Erotic stories for Punjabi widows [book club set]
Erotic stories for Punjabi widows [book club set]
Jaswal, Balli Kaur, author.

Footer Menu

  • About
  • Work With Us
  • Blog
Library Policies© 2023 Richland Library, Richland County, South Carolina
Give

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn