About the Book: Mayadevis London Yatra New and Selected Stories
'When Mayadevi, aged 70, 75 or 80, depending on her mood, decides to go to
London, she knows it will mean a year of penance to wash away the sins of
crossing the ocean. But if her son will not come to her, Mayadevi must go to her
son.
In 'Fish Curry Memories, Leela spends her nights cooking curries on order, so
that she can buy a ticket back from London to Delhi, and escape the life of
unpaid maidservant to her nephew and his wife.
In between these two stories, are other journeys, ghosts,