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Chapter 1, Paradise Pickles and Preserves

• Rahel returns to her childhood home on a rainy summer's day after twenty-three years' absence. The reason that she is coming back is to see her twin brother, Estha.

• Thoughts, memories, and recollections come to her with tastes, visions and smells.

• Rahel's first memory is the day of the funeral of her eight-year-old cousin, Sophie Mol.

• Two weeks after the funeral, Estha is sent to live with his father in Calcutta, where he is put into a boy's school.

• In the twenty-three years that followed Sophie's death, much has changed in the Kochamma home.

Chapter 2, Pappachi's Moth

• In this chapter, readers learn more about the Kochamma family. They are a Syrian Christian family of upper middle class.

• Ammu, the twins' mother, grows up in Delhi with her brother and parents. When her father retires, the family goes to live in the small town...

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