Book of the Month: January

The Girl in the Painting by Renita D-Silva is my favorite read for the month of January. It is an epic story of India. Four alternating plots are gathered together in this captivating story. One plot takes place in 1913 where our heroine Margaret is growing up in Charleston, England. During the same time, Archana is growing up in India. In 1926, Margaret has fallen in love with her new husband Suraj and his native country India. Having moved from England to India after Suraj obtained his law degree, the couple moved to his parent's home after their sudden deaths. In 2000, Emma McEwen plans to divorce her husband and seeks solace from her grandmother Margaret, now back in England. 

The book is really about Margaret and Archana. Both were interesting characters. Both of them had awful upbringings but Archana was poor because she married an untouchable so she suffered much more both emotionally and physically. Her story was the most compelling.