Lessons in Forgetting

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Lessons in Forgetting: When we first see Meera, she is a carefully groomed corporate wife with a successful career as a writer of cookbooks. Then one day her husband fails to come home after a party and she becomes responsible not just for her children but her mother and grandmother, and the running of Lilac House, their rambling old family home in Bangalore. Enter Professor J.A. Krishnamurthy, or JAK, a renowned cyclone studies expert, on a very different trajectory in life. In a bedroom in his house lies his nineteen-year- old daughter Smriti, left comatose after a vicious attack on her while she was on holiday at a beach side town. A wall of silence and fear surrounds the incident—the grieving father is helped neither by the local police, nor by her boyfriend in his search for the truth. Through a series of coincidences, Meera and JAK find their lives turning and twisting together, with the unpredictability and sheer inevitability of a cyclone. And as the days pass, fresh beginnings appear where there seemed to be only endings.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anita Nair

Anita Nair, was working as the creative director of an advertising agency in Bangalore when she wrote her first book, a collection of short stories called Satyr of the Subway. The book which won her a fellowship from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts was followed by her second book The Better Man, published by Penguin India, and was also the first book by an Indian author to be published by Picador USA. Her third book, Ladies Coupe, which was rated as one of 2002's top five books of the year, has been translated into more than twenty-five languages around the world, She has also written The Puffin Book of World Myths and Legends which is the first of a two-part series of books for children on myths and legends and has edited Where the Rain is Born: Writings About Kerala. Anita lives in Bangalore and Mundakotukurussi, Kerala.