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DescriptionIn this collection of five spare and poignant stories from Nagaland, Temsula Aoholds up a mirror to the lives of everyday people beyond the headlines.A ’Bihari’ coolie at the Dimapur railway station has been hiding a dark secretabout his adopted son; a grave threat to both their lives. As her grandson isexiled from the village, a grandmother finally breaks the silence over hermutilated funeral supeti. A rare lily refuses to bloom year after year becauseshe was moved from her usual position in the flowerbed into an ornate pot.Big Father, a uniquely misshapen grandfather tree, becomes the guardian andprotector of an entire village. The matriarch Lily Anne, subjected to racialslurs by her own mother on account of her mixed parentage, resumes herposition on the ancient reclining chair in her verandah to stare at the eyesorein her overgrown garden.The Tombstone in My Garden - with its pared-down prose and gripping, originalstories - reflects Padma Shri award-winner Temsula Ao’s deep understandingnot just of the human condition, but that of all life. 3
