Novels Fan post 2 "climbing the stairs"

2. Vidya: Main charecter : Dreams only of going to college, though the odds arnt in her favor, for woman in Itally, back when hitler was alive, are raised up as house wives. Though one day her Appa (dad) tells her, " ill make sure no one can marry her untill you go to college" Vidya, suprised and happy, runs off and joins a protest group, were her appa is beaten trying to save a woman. Brain dead and crazy, Vidyas father has no hope of recovering. And vidya and her amma (mom) and brother Kina are forsed to move in with her cruel Periappa (uncle) whos house is full of other relatives, and woman are slaves to there wifes. Where she meets the only other man who treats woman as equal, Raman. Find out what happens by reading the book!