This moving and exquisitely crafted novel renders visible the extraordinaryendurance and grace concealed in womens everyday lives. The lives of threewomen who a... » 

This moving and exquisitely crafted novel renders visible the extraordinaryendurance and grace concealed in womens everyday lives. The lives of threewomen who are haunted by fears secrets and deep grief Washington Postare bound together by strands of life and hopea binding vine of love concernand connection that spreads across chasms of time social class and evendeath. The Baltimore Sun declared the novel Chekhovian . . . Deshpandesstory of a woman who loses a daughter is linked to the politics of India andits tradition of patriarchy. «