A Tapestry of Tears

<p><strong>'You immediately come to care about these women and about what will happen to them' Donna Foley Mabry Bestselling Author of Maude.</strong><br><br><strong>'Fiction though this book may be these stories are built from truth and history' Pooled Ink Reviews on Goodreads.</strong><br><br>The stories span a range of emotions and also bring to life the varied culture and social spectrum of India. Set in the nineteenth century A Tapestry of Tears is about a young mother's struggle to save her infant daughters from the remorseless practice of kurimar - the putting to sleep of female infants at birth. This collection of a novelette and twelve short stories explores relationships and the strength of the human spirit. A grieving husband resents the presence of his new daughter-in-law. Deafness has nothing to do with communication in a marriage or does it? Women use embroidery to create a talisman for pain. Then there is the man who loves playing mind games at his wife's expense a family that struggles with the decision to move the aged mother into a home and a young woman who sacrifices love for family honor.</p>