panda
The blue bedspread
Urban poor
Poor families
Sexually abused children
Mortality
India, fiction
Family violence
Fiction, sagas
Siblings, fiction
Mothers
Sisters
Brothers and sisters, fiction
Brothers and sisters
Death
Family
Families
New York Times reviewed
Social conditions
Fiction, general
Fiction
In the middle of a steamy Calcutta night the phone rings. An unnamed man in a city of millions answers to a voice telling him that his long-lost sister is dead. He must go to the hospital to identify the body and claim his sister's orphaned newborn daughter until she can be adopted the next day. …
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