Dollar Bahu

Great book and highly recommended. A story about how money destroys people's relationships and how it can almost tear a family apart. Vinuta marries Girish, a bank clerk, and starts living with his family in Bangalore. She adjusts well in her new family, taking care of her husband, mother-in-law and mother-in-law Gouramma, and does not take her mother-in-law's constant nagging to heart. However, when Girish's US-based elder brother Chandru decides to get married, Vinuta has to listen to constant comparisons between him and Chandru's wife "Dollari Bahu", whose husband earns the precious dollars he brings to the family. its recent prosperity. Vinuta is slowly losing her sanity and health. Gouramma then decides to visit her son and daughter-in-law while living in the United States. There he sees how liberating life can be away from the rigid norms of middle-class Indian life. But he also begins to realize that mere dollars cannot buy the love and respect he will receive back in India. Will Gouramma forge a new relationship with Vinuta and will Vinuta be able to forgive and forget the past?