Ret Samadhi
Geetanjali Shree2021

In northern India, an eighty-year-old woran slips into
a deep depression after the death of her husband, and then
resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination
to fly in the face of convention -including striking. up
a friendship with a transgender person--confuses her
bobemian daughter, who ix used to thinking of herself
as the more modern° of the two.
To her family's consternation, Ma insists on travelling
to Pakistan, vimuitaneouily confronting the unterolved
trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition, and
re:evaluating what ir meane to be a mother, a daughter,
a woman, a feminist.
Ruther than respond to tragedy with seriousness,
Geetanjali Shree's playfal tone and eruberant wordpiay
results in a book that is engaging, funny, and utterly
original, at the rame time as heing an urgent and rimely
protcat againat the destructive impact of borders and
boundarics, whether between religions, countrict,
or genders.

Titre original : Tomb of Sand (2021)