Hastin does not like the accommodations Amma resides in during her one-year stay and is determined to find a job and send Amma home. Without her husband to help, Amma barters her services as a house cleaner in exchange for the needed money. Chanda’s care will cost the family 4000-rupee they do not have. Thus begins an engaging story of one young boy’s quest to help the three women in his life, though he has yet to meet the third. Left behind to care for things at home is Chanda’s older brother, Hastin. With the help of a neighbor, Amma, her mother, takes Chanda to the hospital in the city. Chanda is a young girl bitten by fever mosquitoes and now carries a dangerously high temperature. She is the catalyst for today’s review of Chained, a smart, well-written, and engrossing novel by Lynne Kelly.
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