Sister of My Heart

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Born in the big old Calcutta house on the same tragic night that their fathers were mysteriously lost, Sudha and Anju are cousins. Closer even than sisters, they are raised together in the matriarchal Chatterjee household. But when Sudha discovers a terrible secret about the past, their natural bond is threatened. A family crisis forces their mothers to start the delicate business of arranging the girls' marriages, and the pair is torn apart. Sudha moves to her new family's home in rural Bengal, while Anju joins her immigrant husband in California. Although they have both been trained to be perfect wives, nothing has prepared them for the pain, as well as the joy, that each will have to face in her new life.