Rice Mother

A compelling glimpse into a captivatingly exotic world of myth and magic. Beguiled by promises of wealth fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact he lives in poverty. A woman of formidable energy and intelligence Lakshmi provides security if not luxury for her family though at a considerable emotional cost. Then the Japanese army invades during WWII. The family bears deep scars and inflicts those wounds on the next generation. But in Nisha Lakshmi's great-granddaughter it is as if Fate has come full circle ...