Before We Visit the Goddess - Poche

A powerful novel about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another. Sabitri yearns to get an education, but it is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes her under her wing, but her generosity curdles after a single, unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees to America with her political refugee lover, only to find the country - and love - vastly different from her imaginings.
Forced to forge her own path, Bela unwittingly imprints her own child, Tara, with dangerous lessons about adulthood that will take a lifetime to unlearn.