Sopan Deb's parents had an arranged marriage, but he says they were 'a bad match from the start. His new book 'Missed Translations' is about his journey trying to figure out who they both were before they got married.
Lots of writers have said, in lots of ways, that an unhappy childhood made them writers.
"They were a bad match from the start," he says."Personality wise, just everything you could think of. They were not the right people for each other. And the reason my parents actually even got married is, I found out in the course of writing this book, was that my dad had immigrated to the United States and he put an ad in a newspaper."
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