No Readgrets Book Club Discussion on 24 June 2025: Nine Yard Sarees

Join us as we trace the lives of nine women in a Tamil Brahmin family across generations, exploring tradition, solidarity, and the evolving meaning of identity, home, and womanhood across time and borders.

Book Summary:
Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of a fictional Tamil Brahmin family. Comprising eleven interlinked stories, this short story cycle traces the lives of nine women from 1950 all the way to 2019, shedding light on the community and its evolution through the decades. As the stories take us from India to Singapore, Australia and even America, we follow the experiences of the women in the family: Raji the matriarch who lives in seclusion at an ashram; her daughter Padma who struggles to raise her family the traditional way; Padma’s daughter Keerthana who is about to be married and don the nine yard saree, a symbol of womanhood. Tender, dynamic and full of heart, this cycle is a resonant portrayal of female solidarity and the complexities of the diasporic experience in contemporary Singapore.

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No Readgrets discussions are safe spaces to nurture conversations and connections over inspiring books and explorations beyond their pages.

This time, we will be discussing the novel, Nine Yard Sarees, by Prasanthi Ram.

Event Details:

• Date: 24 June 2025, Tuesday
  

• Time: 2000-2130
  
• Venue: Wardah Books, 58 Bussorah Street, Singapore 199474

This is a free event. Slots are limited so sign up soon!

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About No Readgrets Book Club:

No Readgrets discussions are safe spaces to nurture conversations and connections over inspiring books and explorations beyond their pages.

About Wardah Books

Wardah Books is a bookshop specialising in books on Islam in the English language. Operating in Kampong Gelam since the bookshop was founded in 2002, Wardah Books has steadily grown its inventory of books to over 4000 titles in categories ranging from Arts to Philosophy, Quranic studies to regional history, fiction to children's books. The bookshop takes an active role in reading promotion in the community and holds regular book clubs, reading sessions and author sessions. While many contemporary distractions disrupt the systematic pursuit of knowledge and steal away moments of quiet reading, we believe that the secret gift of reading is time.