The only problem is, his current wife, Satya, is less than thrilled about sharing hearth and husband. Though politics overshadows the lives of all the characters, the heart of this first novel is in the home where Sardarji, a middle-aged Sikh engineer, has brought his new wife, 16-year-old Roop. Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers begins and ends with rebirth-an apt metaphor, perhaps, for the tragedy of Indian partition that forms the backdrop for her story.
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