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Imagine living with your mother (aka Hitler), your entitled brother, Selva, and his wife, Sue, who does everything for him because of an arranged marriage in a traditional Ceylonese family, when you're a staunch feminist. This is the fate of Yuva, a thirty-two-year-old bank manager who has strong beliefs but lives at home with her family and struggles with how her mother reveres her brother and treats her and Sue as second-class citizens in an abusive manner, as does Selva. But there are also marital problems. Yuva struggles with men in general, but love is in the air. The family is the main focus of the book, with others included, such as friends and other family members. But who is in love and how have hearts been caged over the years? And how can such love be forbidden? Will Yuva be able to fix the problems within the family?
The author's book does a nice job of examining traditional culture vs. twenty-first-century beliefs and mores. It takes a thorough and emotional look at love and misappropriated love, such as love that is forbidden in most countries, homosexuality, non-traditional love, and lost love. It touches on Hinduism and its relation to the story of equality, and it does an excellent job of comparing and contrasting traditional and non-traditional cultures, highlighting the strengths of each. The author has crafted a quick and easy read. Overall, this is a sweet love story that is accompanied by trauma and family dysfunction, traits all too common in families worldwide.