Meanwhile, decades later, Mehar’s great-grandson travels to India from England before his first year at university to visit family and detox from his addiction to heroin. Mehar can’t help wanting to find out the identity of her husband, and her curiosity winds up having disastrous consequences. Each woman sometimes meets her husband at night in a “windowless chamber,” but their identities remain a mystery. The three brothers in the family had been married to the three women in a single ceremony, and their domineering mother, Mai, makes sure to keep Mehar, Gurleen, and Harbans in the dark. Two teenagers come of age in India’s Punjab region, one in 1929 and one in 1999.Īlthough 15-year-old Mehar Kaur is a newlywed, she isn’t sure who her husband is: She and her sisters-in-law, Gurleen and Harbans, spend most of their time doing chores or cloistered in a small room known as the china room, where they eat and sleep.
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