![]() ![]() And the tomboy Viveka is just beginning to suspect that her teenage infatuation with her P.E. Devika plays the perfect housewife, but her covert fury spills over into the desire to control every aspect of her daughters’ lives. Valmiki poses as a serial adulterer, seducing his willing female patients while secretly conducting woodland trysts with Saul, a working-class hunting buddy. And Valmiki’s oldest daughter, Viveka, deplores her own inability to be fully herself within the double strictures of Trinidad’s conservative society and her family’s Brahmin caste.Įveryone’s hiding something. Valmiki’s wife, Devika, mourns the sham of her marriage, and the death in childhood of her only son. Valmiki Krishnu is a successful doctor, a ladies’ man, and a devoted father-but he still pines for the male love of his life, a fellow medical student he dumped after finishing his degree. ![]() Anansi, 398 pp, $29.95, hardcoverĮverybody hurts, and in this Trinidadian family drama everybody hurts all the time. ![]()
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