A tender, evocative novel, in the tradition of In the Time of the Butterflies and The Kite Runner, about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war.On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is still a quiet street, disturbed only by the cr
A priest sleeps with a parishioner…a boy loses faith in his father…a little girl ruins her cousin’s marriage…a man is imprisoned with Frog Woman…a married woman knows she’s a slut.These twenty-two stories of love, lies, loss and betrayal explo