About the Book: The Girl Who Couldnt Love: A Novel
An introverted, middle-aged spinster, Roo, or Rudrakshi Sen, lives with her
mother and teaches English at a local school. Roos mother, semi-blind and a
chronic invalid, lives most of the time in an imaginary world where she turns
the grief of her husbands death and their bizarre relationship into the belief
that theirs was a happy, conventional marriage. Roo cultivates an aloof manner
and distances herself from close relationships to stave off memories of her
childhood and of Eeedee, the girl who entered her life as a six-year-old and
left as a teenager—after one night