The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

The Rice Mother

Rani Manicka

468 pages • hardcover • 2002

27 editions

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Lakshmi's childhood in Ceylon is idyllic: her mother adores her and the child runs free among the coconuts and mangoes of her native land. But the family is poor, so Lakshmi is married off, at the age of fourteen, to a man who promises her a life ...

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