Bijou Roy

By Ronica Dhar

Subjects: Family secrets, Fiction, family life, general, Fathers and daughters, East Indian American women, Communists, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, family life, Young women, fiction, Fiction, Social life and customs, India, fiction

Description: Traveling to India to scatter her late father's ashes, a grieving Bijou abandons her life in Washington, D.C., to pursue the truth about why her parents severed their ties to their native culture, an effort during which she is drawn to the son of her father's closest comrade.