TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daisy Rockwell, Tr.
TI  - Tomb of sand
SN  - 9780143448471
U1  - 891.43371 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Gurugram
PB  - Penguin Random House
KW  - Joint families
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Pakistan
N2  - In northern India, an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband, and then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking up a friendship with a transgender person - confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more modern of the two.

To her familys consternation, Ma insists on travelling to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist.

Rather than respond to tragedy with seriousness, Geetanjali Shrees playful tone and exuberant wordplay results in a book that is engaging, funny, and utterly original, at the same time as being an urgent and timely protest against the destructive impact of borders and boundaries, whether between religions, countries, or genders
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