00886nam a22001217a 4500008004500000020001800045082001900063100002100082245001700103260005300120300001000173520058100183230427b     2022      ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780143448471  a891.43371bSHR  aShree, Gitanjali  aTomb of sand  aHaryana, IndiabPenguin Random House Indiac2022  a725p.  aAn eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking up a friendship with a hijra (trans) woman - confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more 'modern' of the two. At the older woman's insistence they travel back to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma of her teenage experiences of Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist