The toss of a lemon
(Book)
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Published
Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Status
Central - Adult Fiction
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Published
Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
619 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published: Orlando : Harcourt, ©2008.
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Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children. Sivakami dutifully follows custom, except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband's house to raise her children. There, her servant Muchami, a closeted gay man who is bound by a different caste's rules, becomes her public face. Their singular relationship holds three generations of the family together through the turbulent first half of the twentieth century, as India endures great social and political change. But as time passes, the family changes, too; Sivakami's son will question the strictures of the very beliefs that his mother has scrupulously upheld. -- from Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Viswanathan, P. (2009). The toss of a lemon (First Mariner books edition.). Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Viswanathan, Padma, 1968-. 2009. The Toss of a Lemon. Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Viswanathan, Padma, 1968-. The Toss of a Lemon Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Viswanathan, Padma. The Toss of a Lemon First Mariner books edition., Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
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