00934nam a22001457a 4500 12344 12344 230427b 2022 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780143448471 891.43371 SHR Shree, Gitanjali Tomb of sand Haryana, India Penguin Random House India 2022 725p. An 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 BK 0 0 ddc 0 891_433710000000000_SHR 0 NFIC 15454 MU MU GEN 2023-04-27 891.43371 SHR MPC6648 2025-03-17 BK Column - 24