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Set resistant to the tumult of the 1947 Partition, Manju Kapur's acclaimed first book captures a life torn between family, desire, and love The thing I had needed was not to be like my mother. Virmati is the eldest of 11 children, blessed to a good family in Amritsar. Her world is shaken when she falls deeply in love with a wedded man. Charismatic Harish is a respected teacher and her family's tenant. Virmati takes up with Harish and confirms herself living alongside his first better half. Set in Amritsar and Lahore and narrated by Virmati and her little girl, Ida, a divorcée on a quest to understand and connect with her departed mother, Difficult Daughters is a stunning story of motherhood, love, and finding one's identification in a nation struggling to find its own. Winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Authors' Prize for best first e book (Eurasia Region) and shortlisted for the Crossword Booklet Award in India.
