num_pages: 336
description: The Daughters of Madurai is both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the secrets we must keep to protect those we love. Madurai 1992. A young mother in a poor family Janani is told she is useless if she cant produce a sonor worse if she bears daughters. They let her keep her first baby girl but the rest are taken away as soon as they are born and murdered. But Janani cant forget the daughters she was never allowed to love.Sydney 2019. Nila has a secret; one shes been keeping from her parents for too long. Before she can say anything her grandfather in India falls ill and she agrees to join her parents on a trip to Madurai. Nila knows very little about where her family came from or who they left behind. What shes about to learn will change her forever. While The Daughters of Madurai explores the harrowing issue of female infanticide its also a universal story about the bond between mothers and daughters the strength of women and the power of love in overcoming all obstacles. 
language: English
title: The Daughters of Madurai
publisher: Union Square & Co.