Every single one of them felt unattractive and tearfully asked the stylist to thread their brows sharper, try out a new hairstyle, and begged for advice on how to initiate intimacy without awkwardness.
Imagine the emotional turmoil this wreaked on the poor wives. Wives complaining of how their husbands hadn't touched them in months and how intimacy was avoided at all costs.
At times the stories were so tragic that they almost verged on being comically absurd. I'm not sure how we started discussing closeted spouses but I was shocked to learn just how many women (who remained unnamed) had cried their hearts out to her because they felt rejected by their husbands. The store had already closed and I got a chance to spend some private time with her. Recently, my hairdresser, a gregarious Asian lady who runs her own business in Los Angeles, was kind enough to accommodate me after-hours for an urgent appointment. What is is about bartenders and hairdressers that makes them unofficial shrinks and confidantes? Posted this on my ASW account and it's created quite the stir. He is also a founding member of SATRANG, a support group for LGBT South Asians in Los Angeles. Dhalla's follow-up novel, “The Two Krishnas” paints a picture of infidelity and explores how, with a new world come new freedoms, and with them, the choices that could change everything we know about those we thought we knew - including ourselves.ĭhalla co-founded the South Asian program for the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT) which provides prevention, health and social services to over 10,000 individuals in Southern California. "Ode to Lata" was adapted for a motion picture, "The Ode." Dhalla wrote the screenplay and is the Associate Producer for the film. Times Book Review hailed Dhalla's debut as "an achievement" (Sunday, March 24th, 2002). He's written for publications including Instinct, Angeleno and Details, and is the Editor of the luxury lifestyle E-zine, Īn excerpt from his debut novel, "Ode to Lata," was featured in the Contours of the Heart anthology and went on to win the 18th Annual American Book Award. Los Angeles-based writer Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla was born in Kenya and sold his first article when he was thirteen-years-old.
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