Marriage Material (Paperback, SANTHNAM SANGHERA)

Arjan Banga is forced to leave London to help his lonely mother run Bains Store, their family's provincial corner shop. But it's also a return to all that he tried to leave behind: narrow worldviews and post-industrial decline and Singhfellows, a desi pub that defines itself by a religion that officially rejects drinking. But, his mother is a adamant to keep the store open, forcing Arjan to work with her, reassess his relationship with their desi neighbours, the dhandas, whose macho heir can't stop listening to Malkit Singh and declaring:' Am just gonna but dis spliff."