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Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi - her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant - who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation.

De l'Inde qui a vu naître ses parents, Jaya ne sait rien, ou presque. Sa mère a toujours opposé un silence glacial à toutes ses questions... comme pour les autres aspects de sa vie, d'ailleurs. Mais alors que son corps semble lui refuser la maternité à laquelle elle aspire, Jaya ressent le besoin d'aller à la rencontre de ses origines. Au cœur de la province du Madhya Pradesh, dans le village de ses ancêtres, l'attend Ravi, fidèle serviteur de sa grand-mère disparue et dépositaire de ses plus intimes secrets.

When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she'd fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay.

Motherhood isn’t always what’s expected. One woman may delight in navigating the unknowable, while another may look to the past to chart the course ahead. Still another may have the urge to redefine the relationship between mother and child. For each, the journey can be heartwarming and heartbreaking, ever changing and challenging. In these provocative stories, acclaimed authors probe the growing pains that can change the lives of both mother and child in ways they never imagined.

Jaya ha il cuore spezzato. Ha tentato a lungo di avere un bambino, ma dopo la terza gravidanza interrotta sta cominciando a perdere le speranze. Anche il suo matrimonio inizia a sfaldarsi e così, nel disperato tentativo di ritrovare sé stessa, decide di allontanarsi da New York per riavvicinarsi alle sue origini indiane. Non appena Jaya arriva in India viene immediatamente sopraffatta dai colori, dai profumi e dai suoni. Ogni cosa ha un fascino esotico, per lei, e ben presto il desiderio di riscoprire la cultura della sua famiglia prende il sopravvento.

Autumn, a mother-to-be, has an unsteady grip on the meaning of family. Her father abandoned her. She hasn’t seen her estranged mother in more than twelve years. And her marriage is crumbling. As Autumn struggles with painful memories of her childhood and fosters hopes for her own baby’s future, she must come to terms with the past to be the mother she and her child need her to be.