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They fill a pot at the Kaveri River and trudge it up to the hilltop temple to offer for the abhishekham. Every year, they return to Cholapatti for a pilgrimage. She and her family live in Samanthibakkam, some hours away by bullock cart from Cholapatti, which had been her mother's place before marriage. She looks capable of bearing great burdens, not as though born to a yoke but perhaps as though born with a yoke within her. She carries herself with an attractive stiffness: her shoulders straight and always aligned. Her shoulders are narrow but appear solid, as though the blades are fused to protect her heart from the back. She is neither tall nor short for her age, but she will not grow much more. THE YEAR OF THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, Sivakami is ten.
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Viswanathan cites Salman Rushdie as one of her most significant influences, and readers of both may recognize a thread of magical realism among the many exerting a pull into this enchanting work of fiction. Her next novel should be published in the spring. Now she lives in Arkansas with her poet husband. Viswanathan is a Canadian-born former librarian who found her voice as a writer while participating in social-activist theater.
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The Baltimore Sun called The Toss of a Lemon "electrifying," while Publisher's Weekly said it's "absorbing." Canada's National Post added, "There is a whole world here between two covers." And although she barely leaves her house thereafter, her story encompasses an epic tale of India's caste and class systems, social mores and rebellion, and politics and superstition. Not too many years later, Sivakami finds herself widowed, with two children. We meet the novel's heroine, Sivakami, perched on the edge of puberty, as she is about to be betrothed to an astrologer smitten by her horoscope. The 600-page novel plunges readers into the vicissitudes of a Tamil Brahmin family over the course of a turbulent century. The first-time author interviewed her grandmother repeatedly over the course of a year to research The Toss of a Lemon. Padma Viswanathan says she enjoys long, intricately plotted historical novels, so perhaps it's perfectly natural for her to write one. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work.