Venkatraman, Padma.

Climbing the stairs / Padma Venkatraman. - New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2008. - 247 p. ; 22 cm.

In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.

ISBN: 9780399247460 0399247467

LCCN: 2007021757

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Family--India--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Brain damage--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Fiction.