Shortly after Ammu delivers twins, she leaves her husband and returns home with her children. She marries Baba, a tea factory manager, who turns out to be a violent and abusive drunk. When the marriage crumbles-Margaret falls in love with another man and divorces Chacko-Chacko, charged up with revolutionary ideas about the workability of communism, returns home determined to make over the family’s struggling chutney business.Īmmu leaves for Calcutta when she is 17. They marry and have a daughter they name Sophie. There, he meets a waitress named Margaret.
Chacko fancies himself an intellectual and a bon vivant and departs to study political theory at Oxford.
As teens, both Ammu and Chacko are eager to leave what they see as the dead-end life of their remote town of Ayemenem.
The plot is grounded in the relationship between two sets of siblings in the Ipe family, first Ammu and her brother Chacko, and then Ammu’s fraternal twins, a boy, Esthappen, known as Estha, and a girl, Rahel.
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