Bougainvillea House

by Kalpana Swaminathan

'Memory is striped grey and black. It stalks, patient as a cat, lean and randy...A wild, harsh, solitary thing.' Clarice Aranxa has come to Bougainvillea House to die. But on her very first morning there, she is pitched back into the turbulent, secret life that she has striven hard to forget for thirty-six years. As Clarice grows weaker from the ravages of motor neuron disease - barely able to walk or even sit up in bed - her violent past is mirrored...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670058297
• ISBN13: 9780670058297
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Viking Penguin
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher