While packing up her flat in preparation for her forthcoming marriage, Ruchira discovers her childhood "book of errors", a teenage notebook in which she wrote down ways to improve her life. But as she contemplates her future, what worries her are the unknown errors of our lives - the mistakes that people don't realise they are making . . .
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's astonishing stories depict the life in East and West with touching perception and colour. From the widow who discovers her old-fashioned ways are an embarrassment to her daughter-in-law to a young American woman's pilgrimage in Kashmir, Divakaruni tells her stories of love, expectation and betrayal with passion, poignancy and a delicate sense of humour.
