Synopsis
The Blessing in India series is a saga set in India’s heartbreaking history and breathtaking present that points toward a future of hope. It follows two Indian families through three generations: One family—privileged high-caste landowners—pride themselves on being descendants of first-century converts to Christianity, yet they cling to the Hindu beliefs of karma and caste subjugation. The other family—despised untouchables—eke out subsistence survival in the garbage heaps on the fringes of Indian society. The hope that keeps the untouchables going is that they can somehow merit being reincarnated as something of value—if not as a person of higher caste, at least as a cow. A personal catastrophe throws the two families together, and in the process lays bare the harsh threads that make up the social fabric of India—caste, discrimination, dowry, poverty, karma. Along the way, name-only Christianity collides with Hinduism, and then is confronted by an entirely new understanding of the call to follow Christ. In the 2nd book of the Blessing In India series, Ashish's family has toiled as slaves in the fields of the high-caste Lal family for forty-eight years, and all because of one small debt. Ashish and his family knew nothing of the hatred for the British seething around them, nor of the struggle for independence that simmered throughout India. At fifty-four, Ashish was old and worn out. His wife had died long before—how many years, he had no idea. Even though he had four sons to work beside him in the fields, every day was a struggle to survive. Sometimes his only daughter worked, too, but she also cooked and cleaned and kept the clothes in repair. His wife had named the girl Shridula—Blessings. “Perhaps the name will bring you more fortune than it brought me,” Ashish told his daughter. His words proved to be prophetic in ways he could never have imagined. And when the flames of revolt brought independence to India, they seared change into the families of Ashish and Lal.
Release date: February 21, 2012
Publisher: Abingdon Fiction
Print pages: 336
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