She's beautiful, accomplished, and seemingly perfect and has followed in her father's footsteps as a psychiatrist.

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It's a look at mental health issues as seen from an Indian family, even one where there are two psychiatrists. I had a very interesting ending in mind that I was hoping would somehow be accurate (and provide me with the crazy twisted ending I was looking for) but it didn't come to pass. Everyone around her seems to notice the change in her behaviour and become worried, but it's when her children start to suffer that Jacob steps in and tells her to get her act together. And finally one of them decided to take matters into his or her own hands: brutally killing parents before their father pull his last trick up his sleeve by changing his will and leaving half of his wealth to his sister a.

The truth is, happy families have cranky kids, messy houses, and money struggles, just like everyone else. This contemporary Indian American family drama with a strong dose of psychology will have readers rooting for the characters despite their human shortcomings.

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Despite the upsets of her childhood and the ensuing adolescent years, Beth has found a happy contentment in her life for which she is grateful. While written in the same vein as Well-Behaved Indian Women, I really wanted to enjoy it just as much. Their son's love of the family's nightly gratitude ritual (when everyone shares their best moments of the day) has helped them define gratitude as a key value. This is a thriller about these rich parents who have their kids over for Easter, but these parents are kind of assholes to their kids and they put all kind of ridiculous expectations on them, and on the morning after Easter, the parents are found brutally murdered in their home.Matriarch, Bina's story was my favorite, where she organizes a chai and chat social for women in her community to discuss the problems that often go unspoken. Decades ago, Bina and Deepak immigrated to America, where she became a pillar of their local Indian community and he, a successful psychiatrist. Spending time with our extended family is a big deal for us," says Gita Saini, 39, a mom of two, ages 5 and 8, in Orange County, CA, who has two sisters-in-law living close by. When your family agrees on its core values — and consistently lives by those standards — you'll build a stronger family identity and reduce conflict.

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A slightly predictable psychological thriller that is still a pager turner as I was intrigued to see how far the author would push the main protagonist. Great on audio narrated by Soneela Nankani and highly recommended for fans of Sonali Dev, Sara Desai, Annika Sharma or Sajni Patel. Aside from that, the only other thing that I didn’t really care for in the book was Natasha’s comedy. This book explores the family dynamics through different members of the family while also touching upon the importance of one’s mental health, stability and well-being.She didn’t do anything to protect them and now that’s how she got paid for herself: being strangled to death!

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My family enjoys the support and guidance of other families who are going through all the things we have, like deployments and separation for assignments," says Bashioum, mother of four kids, ages 6 to 21. Up until recently I had actually not read or seen a lot of Indian women going into the field of medicine because they actually wanted to rather than their parents just telling them they should. Dr Beth Mosley MBE is one of the UK’s most experienced and respected consultant clinical psychologists, and she works with children, young people and their families every day. Again, I’m not a psychiatrist, but even as a joke, I find that putting labels, especially clinical labels on people can be really detrimental to the way people see or value themselves.As an Army wife, Hillari Bashioum, 42, of Lawton, OK, has spent her entire married life relying on other military families. This was a quick and good read (listen in my case as I was using audible) and definitely has all the ingredients of being a good Netflix show with immigrant Indians which seem to be trending these days.