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From the wealthy culture of India and the brutal play of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women wedded to the same man.Roop is a young girl whose mother has passed away and whose daddy is deep with debt. So she is elated to learn she is to become the second wife of a rich Sikh landowner in a union beneficial to both. For Sardaji's first partner, Satya, has didn't keep him children. Roop thinks that she and Satya, still quite definitely in property, will be friends. But the relationship between the older and young woman is far more intricate. And, as India lurches toward independence, Sardarji struggles to find his place amidst the drastic changes.Meticulously investigated and amazingly written, What the Body Remembers reaches once poetic, politics, feminist, and sensual.
