This short story collection explores the slice-of-life vignettes of middle class and working class life across the Hindi heartland, with special focus on the women and their interiority.

Told conversationally from the point of view of a child, this coming-of-age narrative set in the 1980s is a nostalgic homage to small-town life before the liberalization of the Indian economy and spans a period of roughly six or seven years in a place on the cusp of socio-economic upheaval.