Clay & Ash (Womb of Stars: Stories of Loss, Grace, and the Divine Feminine, #3)

In the cramped, clay-dusted lanes of Kolkata's Kumartuli—where gods are born from river mud and sold before the monsoon—Savitri Pal has spent forty years shaping every goddess except the one her hands most want to make.

The best idol-maker in the neighborhood. The only woman to hold the tools. A widow of twenty-three years who has worked through every kind of grief except one: she has never sculpted a child's face. Not since her daughter Meena was born dead, held once, and returned to whatev...