From the author of One Part Woman and The Story of a Goat, both longlisted for the National Book Award for Translation, comes a new novel about love, intolerance, and violence. Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. Devoted to one another, they marry quickly before returning to Kumaresan's family village in rural India, where they hope to build a life together. However, even as they remain hopeful that the villagers will welcome them with open arms, they are harboring a secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in danger.
