About the Book: Sleeping On Jupiter
A train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims,
priests and ashrams, three old women from the train encounter a girl with wild
hair and sloppy clothes. What is someone like her doing in this remote corner,
which attracts only worshippers? Over the next few days, the women live out
their dream of a holiday together; their temple guide finds ecstasy in forbidden
love; and the girl is joined by a man battling his own demons. As their lives
overlap and collide, unexpected connections are revealed between devotion and
violence, friendship and fear, and Jarmuli emerges