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"A rich family saga about art and memory's power to inform the present, make peace with the past, and maybe even alter the future." - Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts"[Asha] Thanki reinvents generational memory, conjuring inheritance as a tapestry of love, trauma, and choices that echo through blood. A profoundly tender and complex debut that I didn't want to put down." - Sequoia Nagamatsu, bestselling author of How High We Go in the DarkA heartrending family saga following three generations of women connected by a fantastic tapestry through which they inherit the experiences of those that lived before them, sweeping listeners from Partition-era India to modern day Brooklyn.Ayukta is finally sitting down with her wife Nadya to respond to a question she's long avoided: Should they have a child? The decision is complicated by a secret her family has kept for centuries, one that Ayukta will be the first to share with someone outside their bloodline: the women in her family inherit a mysterious tapestry, through which each generation can experience the memories of those who came before her.