The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

The Rice Mother

Rani Manicka

432 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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Nothing in Lakshmi's childhood, running carefree and barefoot on the sun-baked earth amid the coconut and mango trees of Ceylon, could have prepared her for what life was to bring her. At fourteen, she finds herself traded in marriage to a strange...

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