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Mortals refuse most divine offers but so few of you accept our gifts, even ones you have prayed for. Drawing on tales from her grandmothers life, debut novelist viswanathan spins the story of sivakami, ten years old when weand her future husband, who soon comes acourtingmeet her. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, sivakami must wear widows whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. Padma viswanathan is the author of two novels, the toss of a lemon 2008 and the ever after of ashwin rao 2014. The year of the marriage proposal, sivakami is ten. Spanning the lifetime of one woman 18961962, the toss of a lemon brings us intimately into a brahmin household, into an india weve never before seen. She lives with the poet and translator geoffrey brock and their children in fayetteville, arkansas. Padma viswanathan s first book, the toss of a lemon, is a treasure that i will not part with. The toss of a lemon in south india in 1896, tenyear old sivakami is about to embark on a new life.
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