Devika Rao writes about small towns, big families and the quiet revolutions inside kitchens. Her fourth novel, The Tamarind House, is out now.
Amma always said the tamarind tree knew more about our family than any of us did. It had watched three weddings from the courtyard, two funerals, and one elopement that nobody in Dharwad was allowed to mention — not even now, forty years later, when the girl who ran away had become the woman who owned half of Station Road.
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