Jay's life comes apart at the seams when her husband is asked to leave his job
while allegations of business malpractice against him are investigated.
Her familiar existence disrupted, her husband's reputation in question and their
future as a family in jeopardy, Jaya, a failed writer, is haunted by memories of
the past. Differences with her husband, frustrations in their seventeen-year-old
marriage, disappointment in her two teenage children, the claustrophia of her
childhood—all begin to surface. In her small suburban Bombay flat, Jaya grapples
with these and other truths about herself—among them her failure at writing and
her fear of anger.
Shashi Deshpande gives us an exceptionally accomplished