This book was a very great and inspirational read. Smitha is the main character and she is a rebel. She cannot stand the way that the women of her Indian culture are treated. She speaks to her mom about her opinions on the matter and her mother just says there is nothing they can do about it, our culture has always been this way. Smithas father dies and her mother leans on her son in law for support. He treats her unfairly, due to the way women were treated as inferiors to men at the time.
