Prasanthi Ram

Winner of the 2024 Singapore Literature Prize Grandmother. Mothers. Daughters. Aunts. Girlfriends. Beloved. Estranged. Becoming. Prasanthi Ram’s award-winning debut is a multigenerational portrait of nine women within and beyond one Tamil Brahmin family, the Srinivasans. Nine Yard Sarees takes us from 1950s India to contemporary Singapore, Australia, and the US through eleven interconnected stories. Following these women across decades as...