From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling
novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family
secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction.
Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family.
Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences,
since the day on which the two girls were born, the same day their
fathers died--mysteriously and violently--Sudha and Anju have been
sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot
comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates as well
as their hearts were merged.
But, when Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is
shattered. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is
to feel suspicion and distrust. Urged into arranged marriages, Sudha and
Anju's lives take opposite turns. Sudha becomes the dutiful
daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household. Anju goes to America
with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. When
tragedy strikes each of them, however, they discover that despite
distance and marriage, they have only each other to turn to.
Set in the two worlds of San Francisco and India, this exceptionally
moving novel tells a story at once familiar and exotic, seducing readers
from the first page with the lush prose we have come to expect from
Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart is a novel destined to become as
widely beloved as it is acclaimed.
