The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip
of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on
the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car
sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale....
Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion
a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their
family - their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the
man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi
(who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko
(Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher),
their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and
the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense
dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her
mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen
and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can
twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river
"graygreen. With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at
night, the broken yellow moon in it."
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