Niki’s determination to complete her dead father’s unfinished book his life’s work takes her from India to New York City where her pursuit of a mysterious immigrant woman turns into an obsession that begins to imperil her daughter her marriage and eventually Niki herself When a blizzard blankets NYC Niki finds herself on a path where the present and past collide violently Propulsive and poetic this elegant literary thriller melds the fervour of Punjab with the frenzy of New York Spanning the cataclysms of Partition and 9/11 via the brutality of Emergency and the pogrom of 1984 the novel explores the impossible choices women are forced to make in the face of violence the ties that connect them across ages and the secrets they store