The bond between two sisters broken by circumstances beyond their control.
Beautiful.
The sounds, the smells and all textures come into play.
And I wonder why I shelved this for a while in favor of another book which I read in one day.
Renita D’ Silva is quite new in the league of new authors that I follow. I don’t normally summarize the story when I review a book. Suffice to say, it was told in a perspective of both sisters when they were growing up. They had alternating narratives. I had another glimpse of India, how the poor struggle to make both ends meet, how arranged marriages are made and such. D’Silva tells the story in such a way that the words are pure bliss, how poetic. I am posting some excerpts here close to the end of the beautiful book.
“And seeing her son encircled in her sister’s arms, Puja, for the first time in twenty years, gets a glimpse into a future that is unburdened by the follies of the past, but lifted up on the tentative wings of optimism, bright as light percolating into an overcast day and feeding it the promise of the brilliance to come. She breathes in deeply and tastes buoyancy, the soft pink of a tender bloom unfurling cautiously in the caress of spring.”
“We are only human in the end.”
“We waste the little time we are given in this world on immaterial things, not the things that really matter. And then, when it is far too late, we long for one more moment together, a moment which, if bestowed, we will draw out and treasure, a moment in which we will say all those things left unsaid, a moment into which we will cram a lifetime’s worth of good times.”
I seldom give 5 stars to a book but this is one of them. Wow, 27 books ahead of schedule.
Dreams And Escapes 
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