New Releases by Indira Ganesan

A tale set on a gorgeous Indian Ocean island in a large family compound presided over by a stalwart matriarch imparts the stories of a marriage ceremony that ends with a pregnant widowed bride, cousins who follow family gossip to puzzle out an aunt''s story and a newly in-love woman who struggles with cultural and family identities. 25,000 first printing.

On an island off the coast of India, an Indian girl has an affair with an American hippie, twice her age. It happens while Sonil, 15, is spending a summer from school with her grandmother. Abandoned by her mother and father, this is Sonil''s first chance at love.

Renu, her younger, Americanized sister Manx, and their widowed mother leave their home on Long Island to return to their native India for the funeral of Renu''s cousin. On the fictitious island of Pi, the sisters find themselves swept back in time, to a place rife with mysticism and the secrets and eccentricities of an extended family.