“I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to woman - though he call me princess just because the Guru told him to. I have come so far, I have borne so much pain and emptiness! But men have not yet changed.” IndiaHistorical FictionPakistanWomens FictionSouth Asian LiteratureSikh Book:What the Body Remembers Source: What the Body Remembers
