Climbing the stairs /

Venkatraman, Padma

Climbing the stairs / Padma Venkatraman - 247 pages 22 cm

In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.

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Family life--India--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Brain damage--Fiction.


India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Fiction.

813.6 / .V461 2008