As she comes of age during this volatile period of history, will she find the courage to claim her own identity and become her own person? This penetrating story, told with lush and vivid detail, contrasts Rosalind’s privilege and daily experiences in India with the hardship of the people around her. Rosalind longs to live the life that her heart tells her, not what her parents prescribe for her, but no one seems to listen. A man named Ghandi is coming to power, talking about nonviolence and independence from Britain. While her father has been at war, Rosalind sees the country slowly change. Rosalind is kept from boarding school in England at her mother’s insistence. It is India, 1918, six months after the end of World War I, and Rosalind awaits the return of her father from the war. Kindness has incredible consequences in this compelling novel set in colonial India from a “master storyteller” ( Publishers Weekly) and National Book Award-winning author.
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