Thinking her mom will nevertheless be happy that she has found and fallen for an Indian boy, Sandeep, Pallavi is shocked to discover that the all-too-perfect new romance has opened up deep chasms and old fears in her mother’s suddenly shattered mental health. All regular inter-generational, inter-cultural stuff, nevertheless made endearing and amusing by the strong bond of the family that shines out through their harried phone calls and voicemails, love and frustration the same side of an ever flipping coin.Įverything takes a different tinge though when Pallavi does find love – and not with her mother’s help. Begin the setups and the mishaps and the miscommunications. They may be good and loving parents, but distance has its price and while a thirty year old unmarried girl in the US isn’t news, it’s more than a little concerning to the doting Usha, who sees it as her job to arrange the perfect marriage. It starts innocently enough – Usha and her husband are loving, fairly modern Indian parents who dote on their Americanized, now-living (and college educated) in America daughter, the feisty Pallavi. Evil Eye is an Audible original tale that combines the compelling nature of theater with the dark truths hidden by families and the fear that only an endlessly ringing, unanswered phone can elicit.
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