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In the age of fourteen, Lakshmi results in her youth one of the apple trees of Ceylon for wedded life over the sea in Malaysia, and quickly finds himself fighting to boost a household in a nation that's, by turns, unyielding and incredible, raw and beautiful. Till she's nineteen having a baby to your kid each year, Lakshmi becomes a solid matriarch, decided to secure a much better life on her sons and kids. In the Japanese occupation during World-War II for the pain of seeing a number of her kids yield to life’s many horrible cravings, she increases to manage every new problem with nearly mythological power. Musical and wonderful, told in the alternating voices of the women and men of the incredible family, The Rice Mum beautifully evokes a global where little joys counteract unthinkable disasters, where gods and spirits stroll together.