The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka

The Rice Mother

Rani Manicka

468 pages paperback 2002

27 editions

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaysia and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact lives in poverty. A woman of f...

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