num_pages: 160
description: A tale of love family and freedom centered around three generations of Bengali women. Somlata has just married into the dynastic but declining Mitra family. At eighteen she expects to settle into her role as a devout wife in this traditional multi-generational family. But then Somlata wandering the halls of the grand decaying Mitra mansion stumbles upon the body of her great aunt-in-law Pishima.A child bride widowed at twelve Pishima has finally passed away at the ripe old age of seventy. But she isnt letting go just yet. Pishima has long harbored a grudge against the Mitras for keeping her in perpetual widowhood never allowed to fall in love.. Now her ghost intends to meddle in their lives making as much mischief as possible. Pishima gives Somlata the keys to her mysterious box of gold to keep it out of the Mitras hands. However the selfless Somlata witnessing her new family waste away their wealth to the brink of bankruptcy has her own ideas.
language: English
title: The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die
publisher: HarperVia