Mother Mine
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Priya. Breathtakingly beautiful, impetuous, ambitious. Her dream ofbecoming a movie star drives her to do the impossible: abandon an 8-yearolddaughter, a good husband and a luxurious life in Kathmandu and followRohit, a film producer on the make, to Mumbai-a megacity where dreamsbite the dust and harsh reality strikes swiftly. As Priya soon discovers as herlife spirals downwards from broken promises, to sleazy casting couches andpenury-plunging her into a world where only drugs and alcohol can see herthrough from one hazy dawn to the next.Enter Medha, the daughter she abandoned 20 years ago, who tracks her downto her shambolic apartment in Goa, where she has started a 'new life'-nolonger an actress but a waitress, still an alcoholic. Medha sets out to savethe mother whose love she craves-but struggles to keep afloat in the chaosin which she finds herself. Falling in love with the devastatingly handsomePritesh and finding herself part of a bizarre triangle, doesn't help.As the lives of mother and daughter coalesce, the story moves towards aninevitable yet inconceivable denouement.In Mother Mine, Sheeba Shah gives us a story that is irresistibly compelling,drawing us into its depths by the sheer force of its telling.
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Priya. Breathtakingly beautiful, impetuous, ambitious. Her dream ofbecoming a movie star drives her to do the impossible: abandon an 8-yearolddaughter, a good husband and a luxurious life in Kathmandu and followRohit, a film producer on the make, to Mumbai-a megacity where dreamsbite the dust and harsh reality strikes swiftly. As Priya soon discovers as herlife spirals downwards from broken promises, to sleazy casting couches andpenury-plunging her into a world where only drugs and alcohol can see herthrough from one hazy dawn to the next.Enter Medha, the daughter she abandoned 20 years ago, who tracks her downto her shambolic apartment in Goa, where she has started a 'new life'-nolonger an actress but a waitress, still an alcoholic. Medha sets out to savethe mother whose love she craves-but struggles to keep afloat in the chaosin which she finds herself. Falling in love with the devastatingly handsomePritesh and finding herself part of a bizarre triangle, doesn't help.As the lives of mother and daughter coalesce, the story moves towards aninevitable yet inconceivable denouement.In Mother Mine, Sheeba Shah gives us a story that is irresistibly compelling,drawing us into its depths by the sheer force of its telling.
AmazonPages: 280, Paperback, Speaking Tiger Books
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