Only the eyes are mine
By: Usha Alexander.
Publisher: Frog Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Mumbai
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9788188811212
Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction; Forced marriage -- India, South -- Fiction; Women immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: South India. Early 1940s.  Sita, a poor, illiterate girl, is given as a child bride to a boy with a dark secret that threatens to bring shame upon his family.   Finding herself in a marriage without intimacy, she struggles to transcend her circumstances.  She learns to read and weave, finding joy and solace at her loom, and release in a brief forbidden relationship.