The Toss of a Lemon By Padma Viswanathan Manga With thoughtful narrative and scholarly

With thoughtful narrative and scholarly rigor

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The Toss of a Lemon By Padma Viswanathan Manga With thoughtful narrative and scholarlySivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. From dawn to dusk, she is not allowed to contaminate herself with human touch, not even to comfort her small children. Sivakami dutifully follows custom, except for one defiant act: She moves back to her dead husband's house to raise her children. There, her servant Muchami, a closeted