Deliverance: a novella

Mimi and Shami are half-sisters who share a mother (the narrator) and a conflicted relationship with her second husband. As the story progresses, all four go through rites of passage that leave them emotionally scarred, yet more closely bound to each other than ever before. Mimi and Shami grow up, grow away from their parents, find fulfilment in alien environments. The narrator and her husband realign their lives, physically and emotionally, in an all-too-familiar, poignant response. Deliverance, first published in Marathi as Nirgathi, is a strikingly unusual novel, about mothers and daughters, and about motherhood, told with painful and disturbing honesty.