This book is set in India and is told in alternating chapters by two girls, Anju and her cousin Sudha. Anju is the daughter of an upper-class Calcutta family who has fallen on tough times. Both Anju's and Sudha's fathers died while on an ill-fated adventure weeks before the girls' births. Anju and Sudha are inseparable. Their bond is unbreakable. However, when Sudha learns the truth about her family's past, she questions this bond. As a family illness develops, the young girls are pressured into marrying young. They both find what they think to be love, but one will sacrifice her love in order to let her cousin have her own happiness.
As the girls grow up and distance is put between them, they realize that they can always count on one another when they are in need.
A good story with several unexpected twists!
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