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Sunday Night, 11 P.M.: JFK Airport: Their Flight Is Delayed Due to Technical Reasons and Everyone Is Secretly Wishing Airlines Didn’t Announce That and Make All the Passengers Nervous
Monday Evening: British Airways Flight 143, London–New Delhi
Tuesday Morning: Colebrookes Country Club, New Delhi, India: Jet Lag Is So Nice at First When You Wake Up Early and Energized
Tuesday, 12:40 P.M.: Colebrookes Country Club, New Delhi: Shefali, the Bride, Is Shouting at Her Facialist on the Phone for What She Thinks Is the Start of a Pimple on Her Chin (It Isn’t, but the Facialist Packs Her Kit and Rushes Over to Shefali’s House Anyway)
Tuesday Afternoon: Mrs. Sethi’s Home, K Block, Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi
Tuesday Afternoon: SDA Market, New Delhi: What Tina (Fortunately) Doesn’t Know Is That Just Moments Ago a Monkey Stole a Woman’s Handbag
Tuesday Night: Colebrookes, New Delhi: Three Young Men from St. Stephens College Have Crashed the Wedding and Brought an Empty Gift-Wrapped Box to Give as a Present; They Do This Every Night During Wedding Season in Order to Eat and Drink Free
Tuesday Night, 8:30 P.M.: Goldenrod Garden, Colebrookes, New Delhi: One of the Bartenders Has Already Managed to Tuck an Expensive Bottle of Whiskey into His Pant Leg
Midnight: Somewhere in New Delhi: Tina’s Not Really Sure—Is This Even Safe? Probably Not
Wednesday Morning, 7 A.M.: Colebrookes, New Delhi: The Chef’s Assistant Just Dropped a Whole Crate of Eggs on the Kitchen Floor and Then the Chef Slipped on It and Fell
Wednesday 11 A.M.: Marianne and Tina’s Cottage, Colebrookes, New Delhi: Shefali Is at the Jeweler’s Getting the Shine on Her Gold Set Dulled Down So It Looks More Modern, and the Jeweler Won’t Stop Hinting That She Wants to Be Invited to the Wedding
Wednesday Afternoon: Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi: A Young Boy Is Sitting Under the Shade of a Tree Going Through an Old Playboy He Bought in Daryaganj and Will Have to Throw Out Before Going Home
Wednesday Evening: Colebrookes: Across Town, Alone in Her Bedroom, Shefali Is Googling Every Man She’s Ever Kissed
Thursday Morning: Colebrookes: Today’s the Haldi Lunch, but First Tina Wants to See Sid; She Wants This to Be Something—Anything
Thursday, 1 P.M.: Haldi Lunch, Hyacinth Haven, Shefali Wanted the Alliteration, Colebrookes
Thursday Evening: Colebrookes: The Pedicurist at the Salon Prefers Male Clients Because They Rarely Get Pedicures So They Have Low Expectations
Later on Thursday Evening: Colebrookes, but Across Town Shefali Is Wearing a Face Mask and Researching Whether or Not Stopping Birth Control Will Make Her Break Out Because She Wants to Get Pregnant but Not If She’s Going to Get Acne
Thursday Night: Mrs. Sethi’s House, New Delhi: Lavina Is Making Carrot Cake That Mrs. Sethi Will Eat a Slice of and Then Declare Too Rich and Then Lavina Can Eat the Rest
Thursday Night: Nono’s House, New Delhi: The Guard Is Smoking a Cigarette and Reading a Dirty Magazine Wrapped in the Cover of an Old Issue of The Economist
Thursday, 11:45 P.M.: Colebrookes: Across Town Shefali Is Nervous, Looking Up at the Ceiling—Is This It? Is Pavan the Only Man She’ll Ever Be with Again? If She Doesn’t Go to Sleep Right Now, She’s Going to Look Tired Tomorrow
Friday Morning: Colebrookes: Across Town, Half a Sleeping Pill Later, Shefali Has Woken Up Happy; She Slept Beautifully Last Night and Her Eyes Look Bright Today and Pavan Is Perfect for Her
Friday, Dusk: Colebrookes: One of the Gardeners Is Repotting a Bougainvillea and Looks Up and Sees the Pink Sky and Takes a Moment to Gasp with Gratitude
Saturday Morning, 6 A.M.: Colebrookes: Mr. Das Is Awake and Watching an Exercise Video on Youtube as He Drinks His Morning Tea
Saturday, 11 A.M.: Colebrookes: Mr. Das Hopes He Gets a Permanent Scar; He’s Always Liked Scars but Never Had One Except from Where He Hurt His Hand on His Mother’s Knitting Needle
Saturday Night—the Final Night—the Wedding and the Reception: Colebrookes: Shefali Now Wishes She Hadn’t Planned the Two for the Same Night; She Feels Like She’s Missing Out on Fun
Dedication
Acknowledgments
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