Vanessa R. Sasson is Professor of Religious Studies in the Liberal and Creative Arts Department of Marianopolis College, Canada.

Introductory Note
Foreword, Wendy Doniger
Prologue
1: Beginnings
2: Monsoon Rain
3: Adjustments
4: Durga
5: Festival Day
6: Surpanakha
7: The Choosing
8: The Peacock Garden
9: The Competition
10: Wearing the Red Line
11: Soil and Suffering
12: News
13: The First Sights
14: The Fight
15: In the Arms of a Tree
16: Departure
17: Sadness
18: Tapestries
19: Holding on and Letting Go
20: Out the Gates
21: Devadatta
22: Splendour
23: The Return
24: Overcoming Obstacles
25: Departures
Study Questions
Notes