About the Book: Water Days: A Novel
THE DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN GALVANISES HER FAMILY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD INTO A FRENZY
OF QUESTIONS AND UNLIKELY DISCOVERIES.
At the cusp of the millennium, in a fast-changing neighbourhood in Bangalore,
Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi form a buzzing background of muted
conversations as speculation mounts about what really happened that night when a
girl barely out of her teens died. Raghavendra, erstwhile security guard
dreaming of setting up his own grocery store, finds himself unexpectedly in the
middle of it all, tasked with the responsibility of finding out the truth by his
wife Poornima.
And every morning, for the thirteen