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On a lazy Sunday afternoon, after having a lunchtime of succulent pork and chilled ale, Andrea settles down with her uncle and aunt to retell family stories of Akkai, a Roman Catholic nun (and Andrea's great aunt), who passed away under inexplicable circumstances. This gets Andrea thinking about the lives of the other nuns in the family - like strong and brassy, salsa-dancing great aunt Deidre, who still left the convent to be the principal of a university; others gentle and steely like Akkai, and the don-like Stella Marie, a nursing superintendent. Andrea realizes these women have played out a big part in the architecture of her years as a child in the Mangalorean Catholic community of Bangalore. As she talks to family about the nun-aunts, Andrea unearths some peculiar and quirky aspects. Through whispered stories in the family, she involves appreciate the porous convent walls the nun-aunts and the family navigate. But she also encounters sudden reticence from a few of the family, whose memory of the nun-aunts are relatively in a different way textured. This richly real human memoir tells the storyline of how a young girl detects her way by way of a flood-tide of recollections and emotion to find their way the complicated shoals of family ties, in order to bring closure to the family recent.
