A Lotus of Happiness in an Ocean of Tears

In a small, closed community of Brahmins in twentieth-century South India, one ordinary woman conforming to the common practices of her time and place must adapt to a curious world of plentitude, inhabited by strangers. At the tender age of twelve, beautiful Rukmini, the daughter of a village priest, is married off to Sarangan, a sophisticated, urban journalist seventeen years her senior. Although curious about this man who would be taking her away from the only life she's known, Rukmini has bee