Fifteen-year-old Maya learns the cause of the rift she feels between her and her mother and is finally able to come to terms with her divided loyalties when she leaves New York to spend the summer with her grandmother in southern India, the land of her birth.
year: 2001
call number/section: 1000
subjects: teenage girls, new york, fiction, americans, tamil nadu, mothers and daughters, grandmothers, teenagers, new york (n.y.), tamil nadu (india), fiction, new york (n.y.)