Title: Evening is the whole day
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.
Subjects: East Indians, Immigrants, Upper class families, Fiction, Fiction, general, Malaysia, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general
Places: Malaysia