Set in the sensual richness of India, Shobhan Bantwal?s gripping new novel asks: Where can a woman turn when her life's greatest blessing is seen as a curse?
Kensington
September 2008
On Sale: September 1, 2008
Featuring: Isha Tilak
336 pages ISBN: 0758220308 EAN: 9780758220301 Paperback Add to Wish List
It's a girl! For most young couples, news of their unborn
child's gender brings joyful anticipation. Not so for Isha
Tilak and her husband, Nikhil. They already have a beloved
daughter, but Nikhil's parents, hard-wired to favor male
children above all, coldly reject little Priya at every
turn. Vain and selfish, they see female grandchildren as
burdens, and would just as soon never meet the one growing
in Isha's belly. Even the obstetrician agrees, going so far
as to suggest the unthinkable, throwing Nikhil into a
rage—and changing Isha's life forever...
When Nikhil is discovered brutally murdered, Isha is
convinced it had something to do with his reaction to the
doctor's hideous “solution” to their problem. Alone,
grief-stricken, and relentlessly oppressed by in-laws who
believe her baby is a bad omen, Isha sets out on her own.
Born into a privileged class, Isha doesn't know the first
thing about fending for herself, but to protect her precious
daughters, she will learn. And she will cling to the hope
given to her by a strange old mystic: that her baby will
arrive on the auspicious night of Kojagari Purnima, the full
harvest moon, and be a gift from Lakshmi, the goddess of
well-being. Isha and her girls will need all the blessings
they can get, for the greatest danger of all lies ahead...
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