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The Better Man

A Novel

A magical, inventive novel about one man's struggle to find his place in the small Indian village of his birth In Anita Nair's warm and imaginative first novel, middle-aged Acuthan Nair returns home to restore his childhood house and to confront old ghosts. When he begins the project, he hires the town painter, One-Screw-Loose Bhasi, to oversee the renovation, and the two men quickly develop a close friendship. Bhasi, who has a special talent for healing the wounded, helps Acuthan come to terms with his mother's violent death and teaches him how to stand up to his overbearing, manipulative father. But when members of the town elite tempt Acuthan with a chance at gaining the status he's always craved, his loyalty to Bhasi is tested. The Better Man is a playful and moving account of the redemptive power of friendship.

When her plait lay unwound, skeins of silk washed by the dew, dried by the moon
, he gathered a handful of it. And with reverence, with a thumping heart, he buried
his face in it and breathed deep of its fragrance. Always plaited, always
restrained, brushing her thighs this way and that, her hair alone, he thought, had
inflamed his numbed senses. Awakening his catatonic soul with a sweep of
desire. To love. To live. To hold her in his arms. She turned, still asleep, to lie on
her back.