"The saga of one family's trials through India's tumultuous partition--when Pakistan split from India--exploring its impact on women, what it means to be othered, and the redemptive power of family"-- Delhi, 1946. Fourteen-year-old Alma is soon to be married despite her parents' fear that she is far too young. But times are perilous in India, where the country's long-awaited independence from the British empire heralds a new era of hope--and danger....