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In her fiction debut, Alice Albinia weaves a multithreaded epic tale that includes divine saga and familial discord and presents an remarkable heroine. Leela - alluring, taciturn, haunted - is moving from NY back to Delhi. Worldly and completed, she has experienced self-imposed exile from India and her family for many years; 22 years before, her sister was seduced by the egotistical Vyasa, and the fallout from their romance drove Leela away. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is finding your way through his son's matrimony. However when Leela will come for the marriage, she disrupts the careful choreography of the weekend, with its myriad participants and their conflicting wishes. Gleefully presiding on the drama is Ganesh - divine, elephant-headed scribe of the Mahabharata, India's great epic. The family may think they may have arranged the marriage for their own selfish ends, but relating to Ganesh it is he who is directing happenings - in a bid to save lots of Leela, his much loved heroine, from Vyasa. As the weekend progresses, hidden knowledge online personas, maternal identities, and poetic authorships are unveiled; boundaries both spiritual and continental are crossed; and family members are ripped apart and cut back collectively in this vivid and brilliant special event of family, love, and storytelling.
