A House For Happy Mothers: A Novel - Plot & Excerpts
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 brushed her teeth, there had been blood. That was how it had been with Manoj and Mohini. A woman knew her body. The bus jerked again, and this time Asha felt her hand move to her stomach, but she balled it into a fist and let it lie on her lap. This would not be like the other times. This baby was not hers. Pratap slept, his head resting against the dirty glass window of the bus. They’d had to wake up at four in the morning so that they could be at the hospital by nine o’clock. Asha had worn her best sari, even though she knew that it would get wrinkled in the time it took them to get to Doctor Swati’s hospital. She had insisted that Pratap wear his nice pants and shirt and had painstakingly ironed the shirt to make sure there were no creases.
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