Book summary

First Anna Singer's father is tragically killed in a car crash. Then her husband dumps her. In an attempt to heal herself, she takes a trip to India, where her English mother spent her childhood and where Anna hopes to find some kind of peace. Armed with a narrative her mother has written about her early days, Anna arrives in India--a place that proves to be life-changing not only in its present-day aspect but in her mother's unexpectedly shocking memories of it.