Climbing the stairs
By: Padma Venkatraman.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780399247460
Subjects: Family life -- India -- Fiction; Prejudices -- Fiction; Brain damage -- Fiction; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.