The Fire Sacrifice

'Everything that was tender, fragrant, fresh and pure... All turned to ashes... Had she herself been saved or burned to nothing, like the offerings in the fire?'
As Guddo's family gathers in her New York apartment to welcome the new year, she re-lives the ten years that have passed since she left her native India. Drawn to the USA by the promise of a glamorous life, Guddo's whole family become ensnared in a struggle between Indian and American ways of life. She watches as the next generation is drawn inevitably into rootless Western ways, with tragic results.
A fast-moving novel which encapsulates the conflicts of the immigrant to the West, through the eyes of a woman coming to terms with loss and challenge. (Goodreads)