What The Body Remembers by SHAUNA SINGH-BALDWIN

It s 1937, and with her father in debt, motherless sixteen-year-old Roop learns she is to become the second wife of Sardarji, a wealthy Sikh landowner whose first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him a child. Roop believes that the strong-willed Satya will treat her as a sister, but their relationship swiftly becomes ominous and complicated. What the Body Remembers is also Satya s story. Mortified when Sardarji marries Roop, Satya resorts to desperate measures to maintain her place in society and her husband s heart. Sardarji himself struggles as the India he knows begins to change when separatist tensions between Hindus and Muslims trap the Sikhs in a horrifying middle ground and the departing British prepare to divide the land into India and Pakistan. This 1999 Doubleday Paperback is in good condition.

ISBN: 9780385601108 SKU: 1579820 This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1579820
Location: Fiction