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Mother India

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Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release from the sufferings of life. Narrated in luminous prose by Meena, a Jewish American lesbian who has claimed India as her home, the novel is vividly populated by the darkly comic universe of three generations of women along with other family members, as well as by the Indians whose world they seek to penetrate. There is Meena's religiously observant mother, Ma, whose desire to remove herself from the wheel of life plays out in a Faulknerian funeral procession and cremation on the banks of the holy river Ganges; Meena's daughter, Maya, a misunderstood child coming of age in an emotionally treacherous household; her ex-wife, Geeta, a privileged and hedonistic Indian woman who enters their world with devastating consequences; Meena's twin brother, Shmelke, a charismatic rabbi turned guru and international fugitive; and the Indian servant, Manika, whose loyalty to the family both sustains and shackles them. ldentifying with the humanity of its characters, the reader is drawn into a vast, tragicomic, and fascinating epic, Homeric in scope, drama, discovery, and surprise. Universal yet intimate, brutal yet tender, satiric yet sympathetic, Mother India evokes reactions-intellectual, emotional, visceral-that are complex, even contradictory, containing the might and bite that our current cultural hubris and self-involvement deserve. In Mother India, Reich offers us her most poignant and astonishing novel to date.


  • | Author: Tova Reich
  • | Publisher: Syracuse University Press
  • | Publication Date: October 15, 2019
  • | Number of Pages: 264 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 081561117X
  • | ISBN-13: 9780815611172
Author:
Tova Reich
Publisher:
Syracuse University Press
Publication Date:
October 15, 2019
Number of pages:
264 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
081561117X
ISBN-13:
9780815611172