This is a wonderful novel, with tales of loves lost, loves regained, emigration, repatriation, betrayal, disappointment and reconciliation.Anju Melvin is a studious little girl growing up near Chennai, India. Her father is a chauffeur, and her mother died when she was too young to remember. She l...
They came by the hundreds, they came with their kin, blocking the highway, shaking their fists and shouting at a pitch that pummeled the speakers of our twelve-inch television. Teddy and I were nesting in a mangy love seat with our tiffins of rice and dal. For the last half hour, Bobin had been f...