The toss of a lemon
Viswanathan, Padma, 1968-
The toss of a lemon / Padma Viswanathan - 1st U.S. edition - Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt , c2008. - 619 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), The Toss of a Lemon brings readers intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India in the midst of social and political upheaval. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow's whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years she ventures outside her family compound only three times. She is extremely orthodox in her behavior except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband's house and village to raise her children. That decision sets the course of her children's and grandchildren's lives, twisting their fates in surprising, sometimes heartbreaking ways.
9780151015337
2008013369
Wedding india----Drama
Family---India----Fiction
India---Social life and customs----Juvenile literature
India---Social conditions---20th century----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR9199.4.V57 / T67 2008
FIC VIS
The toss of a lemon / Padma Viswanathan - 1st U.S. edition - Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt , c2008. - 619 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), The Toss of a Lemon brings readers intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India in the midst of social and political upheaval. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow's whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years she ventures outside her family compound only three times. She is extremely orthodox in her behavior except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband's house and village to raise her children. That decision sets the course of her children's and grandchildren's lives, twisting their fates in surprising, sometimes heartbreaking ways.
9780151015337
2008013369
Wedding india----Drama
Family---India----Fiction
India---Social life and customs----Juvenile literature
India---Social conditions---20th century----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PR9199.4.V57 / T67 2008
FIC VIS
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