Sam and Dora

About the Book

This is my second novel. “Love at Calcutta Consulate” was published in 2003 by AuthorHouse and is still selling. The theme of this novel, “Sam and Dora,” is “no sex before marriage.” Sam, a hardworking talented immigrant, finished his PhD in science from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. However, the job market being bad, he was forced to take a tech school teaching job at Los Angeles, waiting transition to a job in his specialty area. Dora, with a master’s degree in chemistry from UCLA, was also teaching there because of bad job market. They met at school as colleagues and befriended each other. Dora’s conservative parents did not approve of her intimacy with Sam. For a while, Dora struggled with her parents. Ultimately, her parents agreed. Sam and Dora got married with her parents’ blessings. In the meantime, Sam got an excellent job at NASA in Hampton, Virginia. They moved together to Hampton and lived happily ever after.

About the Author

Dr. Choudhury has a PhD in finance from the Graduate School of Business (now Kellogg School) of Northwestern University. He has published several books in Finance, the latest being “The Life Insurance Corporation of India and Economic Development of India” and a chapter on public enterprises in the “Management of Public Enterprises in India,” edited by Dr. B. S. Bhatia et al. He has also published over seventy papers in leading journals, including a case study by the ICCH of Harvard University. He occasionally publishes articles on current political issues in the local newspaper, the “Virginian Pilot.” Currently, retired as a professor emeritus of Norfolk State University, he devotes all his time to writing novels and short stories.