Bijou Roy

By Ronica Dhar

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

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.