Escaping her failing marriage in the United States, Grace Marisola has
returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she receives
an unexpected inheritance--a house on the beaches of Madras--and
discovers an older sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who has spent
her life in a residential facility. Grace's attempts to leave her old
self behind prove first a struggle, then a strain, as she discovers the
chaos, tenderness, fury, and bewilderment of life with Lucia.