Marriage Material: The Unused Recipe, (Paperback)

<p><strong>What does it mean to be "marriage material"?</strong></p><p>Across cultures and centuries, women have been weighed, assessed, and found suitable or lacking - by families, by matrimonial algorithms, by the silent arithmetic of expectation. <em>Marriage Material: The Unused Recipe</em> is a searingly honest exploration of that inheritance.</p><p>Woven through with her grandmother Laxmi's handwritten recipe cards - slanting left, as though reaching toward something just out of frame - author Ambika traces the shape of a global condition. From India's matrimonial columns to Japan's ry&amp;#333;sai kenbo ideal, from Tehran apartments to the loneliness of modern dating apps, this book asks: what happens to the parts of a woman that cannot be counted?</p><p>Part memoir, part cultural investigation, part tribute to the women who resisted quietly and the ones who could not resist at all, <em>Marriage Material</em> is a book about what gets left behind - in recipe boxes, in silence, and in the bodies of women who were asked to be everything except themselves.</p><p><strong>For readers who have ever been assessed. For the ones who laughed too freely. For the grandmothers who slanted left.</strong></p>

• Marriage Material: The Unused Recipe, (Paperback)
• Author: Ambika
• ISBN: 9798235057166
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-28
• Page Count: 204