Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

Rice Mother

Rani Manicka

608 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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Beguiled by promises of wealth, 14 year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact he lives in poverty. Lakshmi provides ...

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