![]() ![]() ![]() Overhearing conversations among community aunties on “bad" girls, being groomed on the boxes that need to be ticked for a good marriage, she learns to own shame, smother her secrets. “This is the worst kind of disability, the primary disadvantage of childhood."įor a girl child in patriarchy-bound Sri Lanka, born to a wealthy, older father and a nubile, impoverished mother, the invisible impediments run deep and wide. But “so much happens before we are born", she reflects at a later point in the story. That memory, for the protagonist-she remains unnamed till the last page of the novel-begins with what she sees and is told. View Full Image What Lies Between Us: Pan Macmillan, 291 pages, Rs499. ![]()
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