# The Rice Mother

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- Book: [The Rice Mother](https://www.bookquiver.com/rani-manicka/the-rice-mother) ([The Rice Mother.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rani-manicka/the-rice-mother.md))
- Authors: [Rani Manicka](https://www.bookquiver.com/rani-manicka)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4200-454-8
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2004-07-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

At the age of fourteen, Lakshmi leaves behind her childhood among the mango trees of Ceylon for married life across the ocean in Malaysia, and soon finds herself struggling to raise a family in a country...