01082nam a22001577a 4500999001700000008004500017020001800062082001900080100002100099245001700120260005300137300001000190520058100200942000700781952013600788  c12344d12344230427b     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  cBK  00102ddc406891_433710000000000_SHR708NFIC915454aMUbMUcGENd2023-04-27o891.43371 SHRpMPC6648r2025-03-17yBKzColumn - 24