The Rice Mother
Grains of rice stick to her body but time will not touch her. She is the keeper of dreams... The Tiger - Lakshmi, the fierce matriarch whose thwarted ambitions turn her cruel. Would she destroy all she sought to love? The Enchanted Twins - They stood and stared at the terrible trick fate played on them. The Princess Bride - Relentlessly wooed, callously discarded, she consoles herself with magic charms and sweet oblivion. The Great-Granddaughter - The Rice Mother's true heir, who weaves together the silken strands of the family's deeply buried secrets as it spans the twentieth century.
