In this memoir, the author returns to her childhood home in Kolkata, India, to sell her grandmother's house. While she spends a year trying to settle her grandmother's estate, her mind drifts back to memories of her childhood. As the memoir unfolds, vignettes of Calcutta in the 1970s alternate with scenes of Kolkata today. Past and present fuse to highlight a world in which much has changed. Old homes are fast giving way to high-rises, neighborhood...