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Desai's novella is a quick, yet puzzling read where readers wonder about the main characters, a young woman, Bonita, from India studying abroad in San Miguel, Mexico, who meets a woman who claims to have met her mother decades earlier, in San Miguel. Bonita has never heard of her mother visiting San Miguel, yet, the woman persuades her that he mother came and hung out with artists, revolutionaries, painting images of Partition, trains, and violence. The novel is magical and mystical, yet, leaving readers to ponder what's real and unreal, the way Bonita questions her experiences with this woman. Perhaps, if we knew more about the mother and daughter, more would have been more clear, more relevant.