Muniamma was hiding in a banana grove on the hillside above her grandmother’s house. The pain of losing her mother and brothers was still there.
Her sorrow mingled with fear as she thought of Grandmother’s religion—devotion to the mysterious goddess Kali. Living for Kali involved strange happen-ings. Not like the God that her aunt and uncle had dis-covered, ‘the God who made the sun rise’.
But where could he be found? And what would Grandmother do if Muniamma went looking for him?