This feel-good sequel to My Mother’s Kitchen: A Novel with Recipes is all about family, food, love and finding one’s way home.

Since the death of her husband three years ago, Meena’s mother has wanted to see her oldest daughter married and so she organizes Meena’s “seeing ceremony,” a ritual associated with arranged marriages.

However, eighteen-year-old Meena is not ready to be married and wants to leave her hilltop home in Mahagiri, south India, and attend college in California.

Luckily for her, the ceremony is a disaster and the marriage is called off.

After her four years in America, Meena returns home to learn her mother is facing a threat to her home and livelihood. Meena can avert this disaster by agreeing to an arranged marriage. How many ‘seeing ceremonies’ will Meena have to go through before finding the love of her life?

“Seeing Ceremony is a rich novel, full of myth and legend, romance and the heady tastes and scents of India. It is a love letter to both place and family—the ingredients that make home, home. Meera Klein is a natural born story teller—I felt as if I were sitting at the kitchen table as she told me this story—and Seeing Ceremony is truly a feast for ALL of the senses. A true delight.”

-Louise Miller, author of The Late Bloomers’ Club and The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living.

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