The Waiting Room - Anupa Mehta

Maya's life is a series of sexual exploitations right from her childhood. The cook molests her , the husband abuses her mentally n physically and the psychoanalyst takes advantage of her. Her daughter suffers the same fate. Instead of confronting the monsters , she goes through a series of loveless affairs , spiritual quests and meets her soul mate who has a wife to claim and she dies single and unhappy. It's a real story I guess. I don't enjoy reading this book. One gets more than enough warnings about child abuse, marital misdemeanor , deranged shrinks etc. Very disturbing and sort of haunting.