New Releases by Indira Ganesan

Once thought to be destined for spinsterhood, Aunt Meterling seems to have found love at last with a short, elegant Englishman who wears white suits. But while all the tongues on the small island of Pi start to wag as soon as their engagement is announced, even the most stalwart of the gossips is shocked when the wedding ends in tragedy and Meterling is left widowed and pregnant. The family, from its children to its grandmother, does its best to keep a watchful eye over the grieving expectant mother. Still, when the groom's cousin arrives from England and a new romance blossoms, no one knows how to react, least of all Meterling herself, who is suddenly torn between respecting tradition and taking the first few steps toward a new life.

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.