One of the (many) reasons people love Sex and the City is because the show embraced female sexuality and spread a positive message about owning your body.
Jaswal's debut novel is an empowering read about women, friendship, and doing the opposite of what people expect of you. Living in London with her Indian immigrant parents, Nikki is forced to take up a job to help support her mother after the loss of her father. Signing up to teach a creative writing course at the local community centre, Nikki is given a class of modest Punjabi widows ready to learn the basics of English. But as Nikki gets to know her students and the stories that they really want to read and write, she and her class begin a quest for female empowerment and independence.