Someone Elses Garden

By: Dipika Rai

In the vein of Thrity Umrigars The Space Between Us, Dipika Rais soulful debut novel is a moving multi-generational tale of mothers and daughters in rural India struggling to break free of the social traditions fencing them in. Standing out among works by Shobhan Bantwal, Chitra Divakaruni, and other emerging Indian writers, Rais Someone Elses Garden offers a rare look at life in the Indian countryside, far from the more well-trafficked literary settings of New Delhi and Mumbai, in an evocative, atmospheric story of one womans soulful fight to take control of her life.