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"They deserve hell" "Immoral and obscene" "Disgraceful lowly women"
At nineteen, Jeon Jungkook has already worn every cruel word the village could throw at her. To them, she was a girl born into a debt of shame she never earned. Simply because her mother was a former prostitute.
Kim Taehyung lives on the other side of the same narrow world. As an orphan raised in the quiet comfort of his late grandmother, he spends his days tutoring the children of the rich households and being a librarian at the local library. Educated and respected, he belongs to a world Jungkook is only meant to watch from afar.
In a village where everyone watches and remembers, some boundaries are harder to cross than others.
But beneath the shade of an old tamarind tree, they must decide whether dignity, love and belonging can exist beyond the scripts society has already written for them.
*This story takes place in India in the early 1950s. There will be many instances of misogynistic and patriarchal views*