A sweeping epic set in southern India, where a group of outcasts create a family while holding tight to their dreams. Barely a month after she is promised in marriage, eleven-year-old orphan Kokila comes to Tella Meda, an ashram by the Bay of Bengal. Once there, she makes a courageous yet foolish...
Indian girl moves to America. Falls in love with an American boy. Worries that her traditional family won’t accept him. Those three sentences pretty much sum up the entirety of this book, which had promise but fails to deliver in terms of creating three-dimensional characters. The first quarter o...
This book. I just can't even formulate a response.Something about this was just the perfect mix of everything. Maybe it's because I'm Indian, too, but really, all the problems, all the characters, even the dialogue resonated with me. This somehow answered a lot of the questions I formulated mysel...
In this luminous story of bravery, tradition, and the power of language, an Afghan woman and Danish widower form an unexpected alliance.Escaping the turmoil and heartbreak of war-torn Kabul, Raihana settles with distant relatives in the strange, cold, damp country of Denmark. Homesick and heartbr...
It was an instinctive reaction, not one she even noticed. She knew she was pregnant. They hadn’t done the blood test yet to confirm it, but she knew. It had been just three days since she had been through the procedure at Doctor Swati’s clinic, and already she knew. Just this morning when she bru...
Bhanu, who was now four years old, was very excited about having a baby brother. She would talk to Chetana’s rounded belly and constantly asked when the baby would come out. Having lost Bhanu to Renuka, Chetana was certain that this new baby would be hers. She would take care of this baby and nev...
I couldn’t go to work. I didn’t know where to go. I didn’t know how to face my children. They were around Amar’s age and they were healthy because I hadn’t left Indu in the railway station on the night of the Bhopal gas tragedy.I had gone to Anju’s house to find out about Amar and compare her hus...