Set in modern-day india, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: sera dubash, an upper-middle-class parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage,...Set in modern-day india, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: sera dubash, an upper-middle-class parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the dubash household for more than twenty years.