"The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .
Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family--their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).
When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.
The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it."

A gift from my Secret Santa, 2006. Thank you, JDT! I just received another copy of this from another BookCrosser at practically the same time, so I'm going to make this available.

Putting this one into my trade paperback bookbox #2.

Taken from indygo88's trade paperback box #2. Thanks!

RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing into ivylibra224's 1001 Books you must read bookbox.

Came to me in my first 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die BookBox! I didn't have this one so it's going on Mt. TBR!

This book was difficult for me to follow in parts because of the way the author kept going from one time period to another. All in all I'm not sorry I read it, but I'm also not sure why it's on the 1001 list.