‘Piece of Cake’ by Swati Kaushal

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Piece of Cake qualifies to be neither a great piece of literature nor a thought-provoking book, but it makes it to our web pages simply because reading it was ”fun’. Classic chick-lit, it follows the trials and tribulations of a 29-year-old business school graduate, Minal Sharma, in a cutthroat multinational food corporation. Running parallel to the core story is her need to find the ‘man’ of her life before her mom dumps the HT Matrimonial list of bachelors on her.

‘Yawn! What’s new?’ you ask. Well, nothing really, except that it is laugh-out-loud, fast-paced, and very well set in the Indian context without being preachy.

It’s also very easy to relate. The characters are just caricatures of people around you- the spineless boss, the turncoat teammate, the generous chief, the hot neighbor, the chauvinist super successful fiance, and my favorite, the slightly overbearing but caring mother.

As you keep up with Minal’s life at work and outside, you are constantly reminded of incidents in your personal life and how you wished you could laugh at yourself as she does.

The USP of the book is its humor. Swati Kaushal writes fluidly and entertainingly in English and the punch lines are quite Americanized.

Verdict

Not something that would be recommended as a must-read, but if you just want to unwind on a weekend, then it works.

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