The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of
India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the
highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit
two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale.... Armed
only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood
for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family - their
lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children
love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her
violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron,
radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and
incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth
(with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie
Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit,
Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives
can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river
"graygreen. With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night,
the broken yellow moon in it."
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