Description: Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing with her family and with a world in alarming transition after 9/11 while uncovering her mother's past in India. Young Adult.
Review Quotes: "Will resonate with anyone who has struggled with modern love, mores and parenthood." --USA Today"Enchants as much with its flashes of fancy as it does with its fresh spin on cultural identity, family, and redemption." --Entertainment Weekly"Divakaruni's book shines . . . in its examination of the subtle, extrasensory connections between mothers and daughters that continue to develop even after death divides them."--Los Angeles Times"Magical. . . . In lyrical, poetic prose, Divakaruni manages to be hopeful without offering false reassurances, showing how identity--both individual and communal--is equally shaped by loss and creation." --San Francisco Chronicle"A masala of page-turning addiction." --The Baltimore Sun