Vijayaraghavan, Vineeta. Motherland, New York : soho Press, c2001.
This is a refreshing novel, where an American teenager of Indian ethnicity spends the summer with her relatives in southern India. Maya spent her first four years with her family, where she was cared by her Ammamma (grandmother).
She then returns to the extended family, when she is 15, as her parent’s marriage is going through a ‘rough’ patch. On this occasion, Maya is very aware of the cultural differences – the sphere of men and women and the persistence of caste system. She is also irritated by the attentions of Ammamma. However, due to an accident which Maya suffers, she is nursed by Ammamma and they grow close and finds out about the family secret that has been kept hidden in the closet.
She then returns to the extended family, when she is 15, as her parent’s marriage is going through a ‘rough’ patch. On this occasion, Maya is very aware of the cultural differences – the sphere of men and women and the persistence of caste system. She is also irritated by the attentions of Ammamma. However, due to an accident which Maya suffers, she is nursed by Ammamma and they grow close and finds out about the family secret that has been kept hidden in the closet.
Ms Vineeta Vijayaraghavan is a consultant at Katzenbach Paterns, a management consulting firm in New York. She graduated from Harvard, where she also received an MBA.
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