Naming Maya

In this compelling first novel, a young Indian American girl finally learns that she can choose which memories to keep and which to let go.

Although Maya has done her best to avoid it, she is spending part of her summer in Chennai, India, with her mother, who is trying to sell her grandfather's old house. Soon Maya is drawn into a complicated friendship with eccentric Kamala Mami, who has been a housekeeper and cook for years in Maya's extended family.

At the same time, Maya is thrust into...