Ashes

A Story About Cigarettes, Cremation and Hope

De: Mala Mukherji

Narrado por: Mala Mukherji

Ashes is a memoir by the first-born child of Bengali immigrants from Calcutta, India, which brings forth universal life lessons that transcend ethnicity. With raw honesty and simple prose, Ms. Mukherji depicts her childhood of cultural confusion, schoolyard bullies, the demands of her brilliant, abusive father and her mother’s stoic wisdom and consistent love. By her early 20s, Ms. Mukherji seeks clarity instead of pity and details her search for herself through psychotherapy and spiritual studies. The result of that search costs her everything. The suicide of her mother leaves Ms. Mukherji in the thick darkness of grief and sorrow. Both propel her into destructive yet illuminating choices. In time, she gathers her experiences and uses them to transform her life into the one she wants and the one she may claim in her mother’s absence.

Ashes shows the listener that they are not alone in their struggles and that they can look within themselves to survive and grow from life’s precious and painful surprises.

©2013 Mala Mukherji (P)2023 Mala Mukherji