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Evening is the Whole Day

Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan is an exuberant, magical vision of post-colonial Malaysia and a vibrant portrait of a country coming of age, as well as a strong and urgent story about caste and unfairness, centred around a family struggling to deal with its past.The dismissal of the Rajasekharan family’™s servant girl Chellam, for unnamed crimes, is only the latest in a series of losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha’™s life. Her grandmother has passed away under mysterious circumstances, and her older sister has disappeared for a new life abroad. But what was Chellam’™s unforgiveable crime? Moreover, what is Appa – the family patriarch – hiding from his wife and children?