I Am Om

Dr. Veena Damle has taken her own background as a medical doctor and as a Hindu to recreate the central myths of the Hindu religion, making them and a slice of India accessible to westerners in a way that, say, Aesop made the moral tradition the Greeks accessible to the following generations of non-Greeks. In this novel, we follow a Hindu family of two physicians, their daughter, and her grandfather through a mounting crisis of infidelity and greed. The home crisis is echoed by the grandfather’s retelling of The Mahabharata, especially Arjun’s war against his own family.