Bijli Kandyal is an Indian Himalayan girl who has just returned home from gathering flowers to celebrate the last day of a spring festival.
In this intriguing novella, an Indian Himalayan girl who escapes an abusive childhood to live in California eventually returns to her village to seek revenge..
As Gunanand\'s stories are slowly unveiled, Bijli sets out on a vengeful journey that takes her back to her village to confront past wrongs.
One day when she finds some of his writings detailing social injustices, she decides to share them with her girlfriends, Maya, an African American undergraduate student majoring in South Asian studies and Indira, a Caucasian woman majoring in anthropology.
While she is attending the University of California at Berkeley, Bijli\'s uncle is killed by a drunk driver while crossing the street.
The following day after she discloses the situation to a relative, Bijli and her mother are rescued by a family member and the girl is eventually taken to San Francisco by her maternal uncle, Gunanand, a radical, atheist engineer.
When she attempts to defend her mother, Bijli is beaten as well.
But after she arrives, she is horrified to find her polygamist father beating her mother.
Bijli Kandyal is an Indian Himalayan girl who has just returned home from gathering flowers to celebrate the last day of a spring festival
