Moving On

Shashi Deshpande’s novel is about the secret lives of men and women who love hate plot and debate with an intensity that will absorb every reader. It is a story that begins conventionally enough with a woman’s discovery of her father’s diary. As Manjari unlocks the past through its pages rescuing old memories and recasting events and responses the present makes its own demands: a rebellious daughter devious property sharks and a lover who threatens to throw her life out of gear again. The ensuin...See More