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The Lilac House
Anita Nair

The Lilac House

Griffin (Apr 2012)
9780312606770
| Trade Paperback
Dewey 823/.92 23
LC Classification PR9499.3.N255 .L55 2012
LC Control No. 2012003036

Genre

  • General

Subject

  • Bangalore (India) - Fiction
  • College Teachers - Fiction
  • FICTION / Contemporary Women
  • FICTION / Cultural Heritage
  • Widows - Fiction

Plot

Meera is happily submerged in the role of corporate wife and cookbook writer. Then, one day, her husband fails to come home. Overnight, Meera, disoriented and emotionally fragile, becomes responsible not just for her two children, but also her mother, grandmother and the running of Lilac House, their rambling old family home in Bangalore.A few streets away, Professor J.A. Krishnamurthy or Jak, cyclone studies expert, has recently returned from Florida, to care for his nineteen-year-old daughter, the victim of a tragic accident. What happened on her holiday in a small beachside village? The police will not help, Smriti's friends have vanished, and a wall of silence and fear surrounds the incident. But Jak cannot rest until he gets to the truth.Meera and Jak's paths intertwine as they uncover the truth about the secrets of their pasts and the promise of the future. The Lilac House is a sweeping story of redemption, forgiveness and second chances.

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