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The Daughters of Madurai by Rajasree Variyar is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Daughters of Madurai about?
The Daughters of Madurai is both a page-turning mystery and a heartrending story of the fraught family dynamics and desperate choices that face a young mother in India. Spanning 1990s South India and present-day Australia, the novel follows Janani, a mother who will do anything to save her unborn daughter, and Nila, a young woman who embarks on a life-changing journey of self-discovery.Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can't produce a son—or worse, if she bears daughters. They let her keep her first baby girl, but the rest are taken away as soon as they are born, and murdered. But Janani can't forget the daughters she was never allowed to love . . .Sydney, 2019. Nila has a secret; one she's been keeping from her parents for too long. Before she can say anything, her grandfather in India falls ill, so she agrees to join her parents on a trip to Madurai. Nila knows little about...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rajasree Variyar
- Publisher
- Union Square & Co.
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Women'S Fiction
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