About the Book

Devaki, an ageing widow, lives with her maid, Ambli, in a village in Kerala. Though she is haunted by nightmares from her past, she lives through the days in the belief that one day her only son, Naresh, now estranged, will return to her. One day she gets a call from her grand daughter, Sheela, who lives in the US, giving her news that Naresh and his wife Meena have been kiled in an auto accident. A story of women haunted by their past... struggling to make peace with their present and hoping to have a bearable future.