A family and their significant others gather one summer weekend in a California home to mark the golden jubilee wedding anniversary of a Bengali-American couple, Deb and Ruma. Intended to be a celebration through conversation and music, the weekend and the days leading up to it become as much a time of bonds lost and recovered, a time of remembrance of long buried and willfully forgotten pasts, of confessions and self-discovery, of acceptances and rejections, of new decisions, a time when old personal conundrums are finally resolved. The narrative is unveiled in a succession of first person tales told separately by Deb, Ruma, their daughters Anji and Diya, and their visitor from India, Deb's much-loved widowed sister Nanda.
SUBRATA DASGUPTA is a multidisciplinary scholar, professor and writer who holds the Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair in the University of Louisiana. Born in Calcutta, he was educated in England, India and Canada. He is the author of twelve previous books including a childhood memoir, Salaam Stanley Matthews and, most recently, Awakening: The Story of the Bengal Renaissance. He lives in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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