Palace of Illusions by Chitra Divakaruni

For Weeks 6, 7, and 9, I'll be reading Chitra Divakaruni's Mahabharata novel, Palace of Illusions. Since I've already read both the Narayan version of the Mahabharata and the PDE, I wanted to choose something different. I first read this novel when it came out and I enjoyed it so much; it is going to be a pleasure to read it again, and then starting in Week 11, I'll be reading Chitra's new novel about the Ramayana!

I'm pasting in here the Reading Guide for the novel so that I will know what to read each week:

Reading A = Week 6: A
1 Fire
2 Blue
3 Milk
4 Cosmology
5 Smoke

Reading B = Week 6: B
6 Incarnations
7 Fish
8 Sorceress
9 Portrait
10 Births
11 Scorpion
12 Song

Reading C = Week 7: A
13 Scar
14 Brinjal
15 Lac
16 Boon
17 Grandfather
18 River

Reading D = Week 7: B
19 Palace
20 Wives
21 Afterlife
22 Discus
23 Lake

Reading E = Week 9: A
24 Games
25 Sari
26 Rice
27 Tales
28 Lotus
29 Visitations

Reading F = Week 9: B
30 Disguise
31 Preparation
32 Field
33 Sight

Reading G = Week 10: A
34 Secrets
35 Avanlanche
36 Wheel
37 Owl
38 Pyre

Reading H = Week 10: B
39 Ash
40 Snake
41 Reed
42 Snow
43 Fire