The Girl in the Garden

I'm still reeling from the ending of this... Wow. I seen some of it coming, but not all of it. This is a tale about a ten year old Indian American girl whose troubled mother takes her back to India for one summer. Secrets begin to unveil... Her uncle owns the hospital but why does he cater to anothe......more

Well that sure ended with a flurry of revelations. A soon to be married woman decides to repair the past she left behind in India. A proud family of deep secrets and more than their share of sorrows are revealed as she recounts why she must return to India before she starts her new life, stateside.......more

Books about NRIs returning to their family roots in India often are accused of focusing on how alienated the protagonist feels and how little they understand their roots. On the outside, that's how THE GIRL IN THE GARDEN seems it will turn out; but it turns the table on expectations and is an absolu......more

Rakhee Singh had it all. She'll soon be graduating from Yale's, and starting a promising job. She has a wonderful family and is engaged to the man she loves. But she has a secret - something that still bothers her, something that happened when she was eleven and on her very first trip to India with......more

This is a beautiful, thoughtful story that occasionally nudges towards melodrama, but never quite gets there. Kamala Nair follows in the footsteps of Jhumpa Lahiri with this beautifully written story of the child of Indian immigrants, but she also shows other influences-- I loved the echoes of The Se......more