Book_Junkie posted 'The Rice Mother' - Rani Manicka | Dec 13, 2009
This is the story of Lakshmi, a young Ceylonese girl brought to Malaya in 1930, as the young bride of an older man, and her children and grandchildren. Lakshmi narrates the first part of the book, where she explains about her childhood and how she is tricked into marriage, but then goes on to have...