An Extraordinary DestinyAn Extraordinary Destiny

"A captivating family saga interlacing three generations of an Indian family as they strain against ancestral cords and wrestle with the expectations of an unusually auspicious kundali. Steeped in history and mired in custom, this is the story of a son striving to attain the extraordinary destiny foretold at his birth, a father mourning two tragic losses and crushing disappointment in his son, and a young woman exulting in newfound freedom through education while remaining bound by familial duty. Reminiscent of Jumpa Lahiri's The Lowland, this scintillating debut, spanning fifty years and two continents, reveals how decades-old grief, seeded in a traumatic history and cultivated by generational rites, can rise up to strangle the sacred connection between ancestors and descendants."--Back cover of work.