Sleeping on Jupiter

Description:

"On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli, three women in their sixties witness an assault on a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi. The women are disturbed, but shrug off the encounter. Among Jarmuli's pilgrims, priests, and temples, the three women live out their long-planned holiday together, while Nomi searches for clues to her past in a local ashram. As their lives overlap and collide, the town's serene surface is punctured by violence as its long, dark history becomes impossible to ignore"--Page 4 of cover.

subjects: Adult child abuse victims,  Older women,  Ashrams,  Orphans,  Women motion picture producers and directors,  Fiction,  Fiction, cultural heritage,  India, fiction,  New York Times reviewed

Places: North India