A Marriage Made in Heaven How to Find and Keep a Spiritually Satisfying Relationship

Defying her culture and tradition, a successful, highly educated Tamil Brahmin woman writes a letter to a prominent American book publisher who disillusioned with love in the Western world advertises in an Indian newspaper for an arranged marriage. Her letter launches this book s remarkable correspondence. What follows is an epistolary evaluation of compatibility, gender roles, love, and the way to find and keep a spiritually satisfying relationship. In this intimate exchange of more than 60 letters, they raise as many questions as they answer and reveal the secrets of sustaining a love that encompasses the mind, body, heart, and spirit. Deliciously funny and profoundly moving, this improbable love story may just change how you view relationships.

Vatsala Sperling, born in India, worked as chief of clinical microbiology at the Children’s Trust Hospital in Madras until her marriage. Ehud Sperling is founder and president of Inner Traditions International, one of the largest and oldest companies worldwide publishing books on spirituality, religion, and alternative health. Vatsala and Ehud live in rural Vermont with their young son, Mahar.