Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Our Mothers -- My Mother -- My Mother, My Daughter -- When Alamelu Shrugged -- An Outsider at Home -- Her Infinite Variety -- The Cross a Woman Carries -- My Mother's Gardens -- Stepmother at Seventeen -- Ourselves -- Motherhood and Me -- A Mother, Myself -- A Delicate Bondage -- Motherhood: Not a Joke! -- Learning to be a Mother -- No Baby, No Cry! -- Our Children -- More a Friend -- Letter to My Children -- Paint and Nursery Rhymes -- The Colour of Hibiscus -- The Mother Who Wasn't -- Glossary -- About the Editor and Contributors.