Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one anotherâ€”a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love.

The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her familyâ€™s situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single, unforgiveable misstep. Years later, Sabitriâ€™s own daughter, Bela, haunted by her motherâ€™s choices, flees abroad with her political refugee loverâ€”but the America she finds is vastly different from the country sheâ€™d imagined. As the marriage crumbles and Bela is forced to forge her own path, she unwittingly imprints her own child, Tara, with indelible lessons about freedom, heartbreak, and loyalty that will take a lifetime to unravel.

In her latest novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, and the different kinds of love that bind us across generations. Before We Visit the Goddess captures the gorgeous complexity of these multi-generational and transcontinental bonds, sweeping across the twentieth century from the countryside of Bengal, India, to the streets of Houston, Texasâ€”an extraordinary journey told through a sparkling symphony of voices.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-04-19
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-04-19
Format	Kindle eBook

Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

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