Escaping her failing marriage in the United States, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother.
Settling into the pink house on its spit of wild beach, Grace builds a new and precarious life with Lucia, the village housekeeper Mallika, the.
Once there, she receives an unexpected inheritance--a property on the isolated beaches south of Madras--and discovers a sister she never knew she had: Lucia, four years older, who has spent her life in a residential facility.
Escaping her failing marriage in the United States, Grace Marisola has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother