In a boxy apartment building in an American university town Romola Mitra a young bride anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India When she accidentally opens the wrong letter it changes her life Decades later her son Amit finds the letter & thinks he has discovered his mother's secret But secrets have their own secrets sometimes & a way of following their keepers Moving from adolescent rooftop games to adult encounters in gay bars from hair salons in Calcutta to Mc Donald's drive-thrus in California this is an unforgettable story about family the struggle between having what we want & doing what we feel we must
- & the sacrifices we make for those we love