Priya needs the acceptance of herself as much as she needs it from her family. This is an interesting and well written novel- a good read.

The Mango Season, was a phenomenal summer read. Priya, left India to study in the United States and falls in love with an American man, Nick. She and Nick live together are engaged to be married. Priya now has to break the news to her traditional family in Indian who believe in arranged marriages from the same Indian class. Although, Priya's family are set in their ways she loves them dearly and finds great trouble breaking the news. News which should be joyous. However, to her family the act of not marrying a successful Indian man from the same class would bring shame to her family and may result in them disowning her.
Amulya Malladi, wrote an extremely relatable, loving, and funny story. There's a little something for everyone, which is why I highly recommend this book.

I loved this book. Once I started reading I realized I had actually read it a few years ago. I would highly recommend this book to everyone.
If you love books about Indian culture this is a must.

It has been seven years since protagonist Priya Rao visited home (India). She escaped arranged marriage by enrolling in a master's program in the United States and then conveniently found a job in Silicon Valley. But now Priya is out of excuses. So what better time to visit home than during mango season. While she was growing up, summer was all about ripe, sweet mangoes. Maybe the dripping juice will be a distraction from the news she dreads telling her family.

Priya is engaged to (gasp!) an American man. Her family will not approve. He is not Indian and certainly not Telugu Brahmin. In fact, they are all arranging her marriage to a nice Indian boy. Before it goes too far, Priya has to spill her secret. The best time to tell everyone is while making mango pickle with her parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. She has to choose love or family.

As an American, I am not familiar with the traditions of marrying in the same caste or having a spouse chosen with no say in the matter. Here in the United States, it is quite common to mesh cultures. So I enjoyed reading this book about a culture so different from my own. I like how author Amulya Malladi explained the Indian culture and let readers see this world from our Americanized eyes.

No worries if you didn't read The Mango Season when it was first published in 2003. I didn't either. But you can fix that now by reading the recently published edition. Grab a sweet piece of fruit, preferably mango, and settle in for a good read on a hot sticky summer day.

LiteraryMarie

Really good. Showed both sides of the arranged marriage fairly well. I enjoyed the family dynamic.

The Mango Season is a feast for the senses. The subjects of growing up and returning home from abroad, come to life with the strong family dynamic. However, it is a meandering tale that is not for those that like to jump right in and get to the meat of the story. The plot lacks punch, and it is hard to root for the whiny protagonist. Priya contradicts herself seemingly at every turn. She's a modern woman, yet a petulant child. She's an evolved progressive, yet a disgruntled traditionalist. I loved the complexity, but Priya's ill-temper throughout make her hard to like. Still, I found much to relate to in this story, as anyone that leaves home and comes back again concludes that the cliche of the returning offspring holds true.

I liked this book. It wasn't my favorite, but I am sure it could appeal to other readers. It is a familiar story - an Indian girl educated in the States, has fallen in love with an American. She returns to her home in India, in order to tell her parents and relatives that she will not be interested in an arranged marriage. The book explores the cultural differences between races and generations. The writing is very descriptive and I felt transported to this Indian town where the women are involved in making Mango pickles and other delicacies, It seemed that the characters were not fully fleshed out, the women were not at all agreeable, and it was hard to find much sympathy for the main character Priya and her fiance.

A delightful book! Returning to India from America, Priya is about to be overwhelmed with her family's wishes to find her a decent, respectable, Indian husband. Unknown to the strongly opinionated yet loving family, Priya has been living with a man and plans to marry him. The extreme heat, both weather and emotional, brings many things to a head. Well worth the read.

I really enjoyed this book, Priya has gone back to India to see her family and to break the news to them that she is engaged to be married to an American man. Before she can break the news however, she has to contend with the values and traditions of her family, which she is now at odds with having been away from home for a long time. I thought it was really interesting to see the dynamics of family life in India, especially the cast system and what that entails. I did, however, find it a little unbelievable that Priya wouldn't tell her family about her fiancé before her visit seeing as she was about to marry the man. What I did think was really clever was that the author makes the readers face their own prejudices, when all is revealed at the end of the book. A nice, easy read but with a lot of character and food for thought.

I received this book from Netgalley for an honest review. I really liked this book, seeing an insight into the Indian culture. The book really conveyed the atmosphere of India, the hierarchy of an Indian family and making Mango chutney!!! I will never looker a jar of chutney again without seeing what goes into a simple condiment!! The story may have been set in India but all sons and daughters are the same, we become children again when with our parents!! I will recommend this book and will read this author again. Thank you for the opportunity.

This was a cute novel, complete with happily ever after, after a series of surprises, as the protagonist navigated the highs and lows of her family of origin, while balancing chosen family.

Let's assume that my love for mangoes made me want to read this book, because the recipe on mango pickle is one that I had mastered long before I read this book. You have a 27 year old successful young woman, Priya, going back home to India, because she can't delay her trip home any longer and she chooses to visit during the mango season because her family gathers together and are joyful during this time. Her sole purpose is to let them know that she would like to choose her future partner, as opposed to accept an arranged marriage, but what are her chances with an overbearing mother, a strict grandfather and many more cousins who have been there before her?
I'm glad that I got this off Netgalley; because I'd have missed out on a young woman's desire to choose for herself against the beliefs of her family, her people, her country and more so the love that she has for the man she would like to be married to and the people who brought her up.