The novel Piece of Cake by Swati Kaushal is a story of Minal Sharma, the protagonist, who is a daughter of strictly socially devoted parents, having a history of freedom fighters in her family. Traversing through a disciplined childhood, the protagonist has been described through her journey from being overly dictated by her parents, to completing her MBA without the will of her parents, to making her path as a product manager in International Foods Company, and in this process, finding a love for herself. In this journey, the protagonist is subjected to multiple situations, incidents and anecdotes which prove that being a single woman in her approaching 30s is not entirely acceptable by the society, yielding a pressure to get married rather get settled, as if without the tag of being married, one is unsettled or infuriately incompetent . The novel Piece of Cake is regarded to be a pioneer in the genre of Chick Lit and is the first novel to ever address the various facets which an independent woman looking for stability, faces while living in an Indian society.
Key words: Piece , Cake , Power, Feminism
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