Piya engages Fokir to help with her research and finds a translator in Kanai Dutt, a businessman from Delhi whose idealistic aunt and uncle are longtime settlers in the Sundarbans. Although they have no language between them, they are powerfully drawn to each other, sharing an uncanny instinct for the ways of the sea. Rescue comes in the form of a young, illiterate fisherman, Fokir.
Her journey begins with a disaster when she is thrown from a boat into crocodile-infested waters. Piya Roy is a marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare, endangered river dolphin. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people collide. At any moment, tidal floods may rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. Three lives collide on an island off India: “An engrossing tale of caste and culture… introduces readers to a little-known world.”- Entertainment Weekly
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