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Almost a decade ago, following my father’s third divorce, I went looking for space and some answers. I took a job as a reporter in India, where I lived with several married couples, which got me interested in why some marriages work and others fail. Back home, many women of my generation were also putting off marriage or not getting married at all, which only led me to more questions. I ended up following and interviewing three couples in India — one the product of love, two arranged in marriage — for nearly a decade.
For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination and skepticism...