{"product_id":"marriage-material-ambika-9798235057166","title":"Marriage Material: The Unused Recipe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does it mean to be \"marriage material\"?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross cultures and centuries, women have been weighed, assessed, and found suitable or lacking - by families, by matrimonial algorithms, by the silent arithmetic of expectation. \u003cem\u003eMarriage Material: The Unused Recipe\u003c\/em\u003e is a searingly honest exploration of that inheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoven 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 ryōsai 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart memoir, part cultural investigation, part tribute to the women who resisted quietly and the ones who could not resist at all, \u003cem\u003eMarriage Material\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor readers who have ever been assessed. For the ones who laughed too freely. For the grandmothers who slanted left.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ambika\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235057166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ambika\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d","brand":"Ambika","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665683484927,"sku":"9798235057166","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marriage-material-ambika-9798235057166","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}