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Amulya Malladi's captivating fourth novel, Song of the Cuckoo Bird, is the story of one woman's life in modern India, reflecting changes in the status of that nation's women over the last 40-odd years. An intelligent, absorbing novel...

-- Diane White, The Boston Globe

[Song of the Cuckoo Bird] transports readers on a cinematic journey through late-twentieth-century India.

-- Deborah Donovan, Booklist

A very good story.

-- The Baltimore Sun

This is a remarkable tale of a family of misfits, while at the same time the book itself chronicles major events in India and changes that affect those who live at Tella Meda.

-- Marie Hashima Lofton, BookReporter.com

Amulya Malladi's Song of the Cuckoo Bird is a sprawling, gorgeous intergenerational saga, in which the spice and savor of traditional India progresses painfully into the present -- the changing of women's lives and the diminution of the man as household god. Told through the mysterious embroidery of one family's tapestry -- its life, loves, regrets, secrets, deaths and even what comes after death -- is mesmerizing.

-- Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean

Kokila came to Tella Meda an orphan, a month after her marriage. She had just turned eleven.

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