The only problem is, his current wife, Satya, is less than thrilled about sharing hearth and husband.
Though politics overshadows the lives of all the characters, the heart of this first novel is in the home where Sardarji, a middle-aged Sikh engineer, has brought his new wife, 16-year-old Roop. Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers begins and ends with rebirth-an apt metaphor, perhaps, for the tragedy of Indian partition that forms the backdrop for her story. Sardarji himself struggles as the India he knows begins to change when separatist tensions between Hindus and Muslims trap the Sikhs in a horrifying middle ground and the departing British prepare to divide the land into India and Pakistan. Mortified when Sardarji marries Roop, Satya resorts to desperate measures to maintain her place in society and her husband s heart. What the Body Remembers is also Satya s story. Roop believes that the strong-willed Satya will treat her as a sister, but their relationship swiftly becomes ominous and complicated.
Synopsis: It s 1937, and with her father in debt, motherless sixteen-year-old Roop learns she is to become the second wife of Sardarji, a wealthy Sikh landowner whose first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him a child.
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