A half-Sindhi who cannot speak the language but is so viscerally affected by the emotional baggage of the Partition of 1947 that she gathers stories of her mother and relatives to put the loss into perspective—that would be one way of describing this book. Aggarwal challenges the Sindhi stereotype of loud-mouthed, flashy, papad-eating people with paunchy ‘saeens’ and diamond-dusted women. She chooses to recount inspiring stories instead of the expedience of reconstructing cliched Sindhi identities.