Chapters (40)
- Cover
- Also by Saumya Dave
- Dedication
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Acknowledgments
- Readers Guide
- Discussion Questions
- About the Author
- What’s next onyour reading list?
Sara DiVello, thank you for making my debut year so memorable. I am so lucky to be able to call you a friend. Laura Dave, our chats helped me in so many different ways. You are a true gem and I can’t thank you enough for everything. Roshani Chokshi, I don’t even know where to start in thanking you for your support during an uncertain debut year. I am so proud of you and grateful for you. Emily Giffin, thank you for all your support from the very beginning and making my debut year special. You will always be one of our favorites.
Thank you to the readers who invited me to your book clubs and brought Well-Behaved Indian Women into your lives. A warm thank-you to librarians and booksellers for giving WBIW a home during such a chaotic year. I am beyond grateful to the bookstagram community and book bloggers for all their hard work and passion for stories. We are all better because of it. Thank you to my 2020 Debuts, 2020 Debuts POC, and Twitter 2020 group for the invaluable community and inspiration.
I am constantly inspired by the mental health advocacy I’ve seen over the past years. To everyone who has had tough conversations with those they love, thank you for your bravery, for breaking patterns in yourself, your families, and your communities. I wrote this book during the most challenging time of my life and am grateful for all the readers who brought it into their worlds. To anyone who has ever struggled to feel understood, I hope this story can provide comfort and a reminder that you’re not alone.
Mental Health Resources
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. If you need help, call 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. For more information, please visit www.nami.org.
Readers Guide
READERS GUIDE
What a Happy Family
Saumya Dave