Abstract

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Daughters suffer in silence but are not able to share their private sorrows with their mothers the absence of lack of mother's sympathetic shoulders at home forces these daughters to look for sympathy outside which leads to deception. Daughters become Vulnerable to outside influences. The sense of belonging that is the essence of a good relationship is found sadly missing from this relationship which is most vital in the life of a woman.
Difficult Daughters is the first novel of ManjuKapur. As ManjuKapur says:"I had to rewrite the book eight times over seven years. And each time I thought I had finished the book" (106). UrvashiButalia of Kali for women was struck by the simplicity of ManjuKapur's writing style: "There is no gimmickry in the language, as we see in some other books" (106). The novelist MukulKesavan comments Difficult Daughters as: "a first rate realistic novel about a daughter's reconstruction of her troubled past, hinging on her mother's story" (50 years of Indian Writing)