Marigold
Set in Rome's dusty library corridors, this novel follows Marigold, a woman of Indian heritage whose outwardly settled existence masks a tangle of unspoken truths. Books offer her solace, yet they cannot shield her from the complications lurking beneath the surface of her intimate relationship, one shadowed by an unbreakable rule. When her beloved pet dies, Marigold enters therapy seeking solid ground. That fragile stability shatters the moment her mother vanishes without warning. A chance discovery in the attic—a forgotten manuscript chronicling her parents' years in New Delhi—becomes the thread she must pull, unravelling decades of hidden history. As Marigold pursues the enigmatic story of her mother's artistic practice, she stumbles into an unexpected education. Paintings teach her what words cannot; they speak only to those willing to sit with their mysteries long enough. The closer she draws to understanding her mother's world, the more her own reality warps and shifts. What emerges is a reckoning both profoundly personal and utterly harrowing—a discovery that transforms everything she thought she knew about her family, and herself.
- Author: Heena Singhal
- Publisher: Paper Towns Publisher
- Genre: Indian Writing
- ISBN: 978-9361858444
- Pages: 318 pages