Evening is the whole day
By: Preeta Samarasan
Edition: 1st Mariner books ed.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780547237893
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: East Indians; Immigrants; Upper class families; Fiction
Description: When Chellam, the family's rubber-plantation-bred servant girl, is dismissed for unnamed crimes, her banishment is the latest in a series of recent, precipitous losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life. A few short weeks before, Aasha's grandmother Paati passed away under mysterious circumstances and her older sister, Uma, departed for Columbia University--leaving Aasha alone to cope with her mostly absent father, her bitter mother, and her imperturbable older brother.