num_pages: 362
description: After her mothers death crossing the border from Pakistan to India during Partition baby Pinky was taken in by her grandmother Maji the matriarch of the powerful Mittal family. Now thirteen years old Pinky lives with her grandmother and her uncles family in a bungalow on the Malabar Heights in Bombay. While she has never really been accepted by her uncles family she has always had Majis love. One day as monsoons engulf the city Pinky opens a mysteriously bolted door unleashing the ghosts of an infant who drowned shortly before Pinkys arrival and of the nursemaid who cared for the child. Three generations of the Mittal family must struggle to come to terms with their secrets amidst hidden shame forbidden love and a call for absolute sacrifice.
language: English
title: Haunting Bombay
publisher: Soho Press