A brilliant first novel about old age, dysfunctional relationships and the disorientation of beliefs, damage is the story of beatrice, a fanatical indian christian missionary and gudda, her youngest daughter, a missionary-hater, separated from her husband and therefore doomed to be the one out of four sisters to return home to look after an ailing mother with a shrilly evangelical mother, a broken marriage and sisters who suspect she is around only to usurp the family property, gudda is already insecure when a new government comes to power in new delhi at whose behest christians are brutally attacked all over india gudda is caught between her dislike for her kin and a growing sense of kinship with the community and faith she has for so long ignored amrita lila kumar has been editor-in-chief, roli books, associate editor, penguin books india, managing editor, encyclopedia britannica, and freelance editor with rupa & co and harpercollins she is currently senior editor with osians literary agency in new delhi this is her first novel