Daughter Mother Woman: A Modern Women's Classic set in India & United States

When Aranjini came from India to visit her only daughter in Unites States, and accidentally ran into Suman, her adolescent love who disappeared thirty years ago without telling her the reason, emotions sparked again. In this new land, away from her life in India that made her an insignificant person whose only notable achievement was to help her daughter become an independent woman by providing her with the privileges she herself was denied, will she embrace her life once again in Suman’s presence? Will Suman answer the questions she has been carrying with her for thirty years? Will her daughter understand her emotions and sacrifices? And above everything else, will she attempt to make her ordinary life meaningful in her own little way and emerge as a woman of substance? Aranjini was born in post colonial India at a time when women were considered second grade citizens. This tumultuous era of social and political unrest not only destroyed her family and her love affair with Suman, it shattered her dream of living her life the way she wanted. Things only worsened when she wed a man who only married her because he couldn't be with the one he truly loved. A full-time mother confined by social conventions, Aranjini was expected to suppress her own wishes and pains to make way for the happiness of others - her husband, her daughter, her family. Daughter Mother Woman, a story based on Indian women, weaves three story lines spanning across three different phases of Aranjini’s life – as daughter and granddaughter, as mother caught in a loveless marriage, and during her new adventure as she seeks her identity. This Indian women's fiction explores the socio-economic changes in India before and after independence, and paints the lives of four generations of women in India through one ordinary woman’s journey.