The release date for the English version of 'Sister of My Heart' by
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is Jan 2000. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Anju is from a higher caste family in Calcutta, but her cousin Sudha is the offspring of the family's misfit member. Just as Anju is straightforward, witty, and fearless, so too is Sudha lovely, kind, and solemn. However, Sudha and Anju have had a relationship from birth that even their moms find incomprehensible.
But when Sudha finds out about a sinister family secret, the cousins' relationship is destroyed. Their lives abruptly and drastically diverge after being forced into arranged marriages: Sudha becomes the obedient daughter-in-law of a strict small-town home, while Anju moves to America with her new husband and discovers how to live a secretive life of her own. Then tragedy befalls them both, and the ladies learn that they can only rely on one another in spite of their growing gap. This very beautiful tale of love, friendship, and inspiring bravery is set in two worlds—India and America.