Three generations of mothers and daughters must find their greatest source of strength in one another in this stunning, stirring new book by the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices. This masterful, brilliant story depicts a family that is both brought together and torn apart by ambition and love. Sabitri, the daughter of a meagre baker in rural Bengal, India, longs to attend college, but due to her family's financial status, this is an unachievable goal. Then a powerful woman from Kolkata adopts Sabitri, but her kindness quickly turns out to be risky once the young woman commits one solitary, unforgivable error. Years later, Bela, Sabitri's own daughter, travels to another country with her lover who is a political refugee, but she is disappointed by the America she discovers.