[bksvol-discuss] Just submitted
- From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger25@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 18:15:27 -0500
Hi, all.
I've just submitted The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka for your validating
pleasure. Common scanning errors have been removed, and page breaks have
been protected. Find the synopsis below.
At the age of fourteen, Lakshmi leaves behind her childhood among the mango
trees of Ceylon for married life across the ocean in _Malaysia, and soon
finds herself struggling to raise a family in a country that is, by turns,
unyielding and amazing, brutal and beautiful. Giving birth to a child every
year until she is nineteen, Lakshmi becomes a formidable matriarch,
determined to secure a better life for her daughters and sons, who include
eldest son Lakshmnan, whose brilliance cannot rescue him from himself;
Mohini, an otherworldly beauty; and SeVenese, who sees the dead. From living
through the Japanese occupation during World War II to the torture of
watching some of her children succumb to life's most terrible temptations,
Lakshmi rises to face every new challenge with almost mythic strength.
Dreamy and lyrical, told in the alternating voices of the men and women of
this amazing family, The Rice Mother gorgeously evokes a world where small
pleasures offset unimaginable horrors, where ghosts and gods walk hand in
hand. It marks the triumphant debut of a writer whose wisdom and soaring
prose will touch readers, especially women, the world over.
Shannon
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can
do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do
the
something I can do.
- Everett Edward Hale, 1822 - 1909
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