Balli Kaur Jaswal

Somewhere in west London's suburb Southall, an unofficial anthology of erotica takes shape. Not within a seedy bar but at an adult literacy class held for widows in the local gurdwara. Nikki, teacher of the class, and the protagonist of Balli Kaur Jaswal's Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, is shocked at first, but gradually opens up to her classroom of supposedly solemn widows and their keen sense of sexuality.