The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

  rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book is lovely, horrible, fascinating… life with a Tamil woman married (at 15) to a kind, gentle, ugly, unambitious Tamil man living in Malaya before, during, and after the Japanese occupation during WWII.  Each child is given his or her own story…  I’m only about 1/4 of the way through, and am entranced. 

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