Amma's daughters : a memoir /

As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma's unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents' distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions inform...

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Main Author: Shrivastava, Meenal, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edmonton : AU Press, [2018]
Series:Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters.
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