The Hero's Walk (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Hero's Walk (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Tuesday, August 4 2009.

• In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his mother berates him for not becoming a lawyer, his son prefers social protest to work, his unmarried sister seethes with repressed desire, and his wife, though subservient, blames him for refusing to communicate with their daughter Maya, who defied tradition, rejecting her proper Brahmin fiancé for a Caucasian husband. Then a phone call brings tragedy: Maya and her husband have been killed in an accident leaving Sripathi to be their daughter’s guardian. Sripathi reluctantly travels to Vancouver to bring the child back to India. Nandana has not spoken a word since her parents’ death. Terrified, she resists her distant grandfather. Filled with guilt about his daughter but unable to express his feelings, Sripathi finds everything in his life falling apart. But with Nandana’s arrival, his world slowly, unexpectedly, finds new hope. The Hero’s Walk is a remarkably intimate novel that fills the senses with the unique textures of India. With humor and keen insight, Anita Rau Badami draws us into her story of the graceful heroism of the ordinary.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Hero's Walk (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Friday, July 24 2009.

• Added a contributor: Anita Rau Badami: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Hero's Walk (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• IT WAS ONLY FIVE O'CLOCK on a July morning in Toturpuram, and already every trace of night had disappeared.