By Selma Carvalho
The Friday they leave for a weekend in Belgium, Anju discovers Freddo is cheating on her. She doesn’t share her knowledge with him. What she should have said was, ‘Freddo, I’m tired of this shit. This time, I’m leaving.’
Her heart feels like it is going to stop breathing all on its own, distinct from the rest of her. The pain is so intense, she realises it is possible for the rest of her body to survive the carnage, while her heart, expelled from her being like a refugee, would simply die.
By Rochelle Potkar
Excerpted from the novel “The D’Costa Family” by kind permission of the author.
Rita was soon back into the realm of daily grind: the insurgency of spices for the sorpotel and vindaloo, the crisp frying of rechado rava-coated prawns, the bubbling of rice that let out a briny foam from its handi.
