Description
A young woman raised far from her origins returns to an Indian temple village to confront the childhood she has tried to outpace. In this intimate novel, her search for closure becomes a reckoning with trauma’s long afterlife—how memory returns in fragments, how displacement reshapes identity, and how the past can surface through unexpected encounters. As she revisits the places and people tied to her earliest suffering, the story widens to reveal how other lives are also haunted by what was never fully spoken. With lyrical clarity and a psychologically attuned style, Anuradha Roy crafts a moving exploration of healing, belonging, and the fragile boundary between forgetting and remembering.
Available Editions
paperback
MacLehose Press
Published Apr 8, 2001
256 pages
ISBN: 9780857053466
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Details
First Published
2015
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy.