About the Book: Tomb Of Sand
In northern India, an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression after
the death of her husband, and then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her
determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking up a
friendship with a transgender person - confuses her bohemian daughter, who is
used to thinking of herself as the more modern of the two.
To her familys consternation, Ma insists on travelling to Pakistan,
simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of
Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman,
a feminist.
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