Kajori (Kaju) Roy, a vivacious young Indian-American, returns to the land of her birth to discover her roots. Adopted as an orphaned three-year-old, her attempts to delve into her forgotten childhood throw up a number of intriguing questions: who were her birth parents? How did they die? How did her adoptive mother find her, and why did they then emigrate to America? Woven around this compelling central narrative are a number of other stories that unfold the ...