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020			_a9780143448471
082			_a891.43371 _bSHR
100			_aShree, Gitanjali
245			_aTomb of sand
260			_aHaryana, India _bPenguin Random House India _c2022
300			_a725p.
520			_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
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