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Sandra Wagner-Wright
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Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
Literature & Fiction
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Rama's Lesson
Rama decides to take as many women and girls as she can to the school: Sharada Sadan. Famine victims all, they follow her to the train station. Rama thinks she will nourish the refugees and teach them a skill so they can take care of themselves. Rama thinks she can only rescue those who can learn a new life. She doesn't want to take the woman who was deaf and mute. But the woman doesn't accept Rama's rejection, and Rama is too tired to eject the woman from the train. Rama is about to learn a lesson.
Book Excerpt
Rama's Labyrinth: A Biographical Novel (Women of Determination and Courage)
Rama gathered women and girls from among the lost and the starving. Eyes listless, they followed Rama to the train station. Rama carefully bought a fist full of tickets and returned to her charges.
“Ladies, let’s board the train.”
Rama and Thakubai, now a Bible woman, stood by the carriage door helping the emaciated refugees. Rama saw disgust on the conductor’s face. You would leave them to starve, but I take them home. Not one will be lost.
A woman in the middle of the group lifted her foot to the bottom carriage step. “No.” Rama shook her head. “You can’t come.” I can’t take someone who’s deaf and mute. How could I teach her anything? The woman stepped onto the train and found a seat. Rama rolled her eyes. She was tired.
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