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A poignant and brave exploration of childhood's less lovely spaces, this work is a sensitive, vividly-relived memoir that captures the innocence and confusion of a small girl struggling against the paradoxes that rock her life. Of a middle-class Parsi girl going to a Catholic school in a predominantly Hindu city; of a girl cozy in the overwhelming love of her extended family and yet a victim of the exacting demands of grown-up love; of a privileged, westernized, ...
A powerful and captivating novel that vividly portrays contemporary India through the lives of two remarkable women, bound by friendship and loss, yet separated by blood and class.Sera Dubash is a middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide years of disappointment and shame. A widow, she spends her time and energy fretting over her daughter, Dinaz, an educated professional, and her son-in-law, Viraf. Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life ...