{"product_id":"alive-nerina-naik-9798181600645","title":"Alive: A story of generational trauma and hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eThree women. Three generations. One bloodline and a single, unbreakable refusal to disappear.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1890s Kerala, a gifted young woman's world is shattered in a single afternoon by the casual cruelty of empire. Cast out by the community that should have protected her, she boards a ship bound for a country she has never seen, carrying nothing but her child and a quiet, ferocious will to survive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat she cannot know is that the wound she carries will travel forward through her daughter, born into the brutal machinery of plantation labour and apartheid South Africa, and through her great-granddaughter, raised in poverty and fighting battles of her own a century later. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree women. Three continents. One question that haunts them across more than a hundred years: \u003ci\u003ecan a chain forged by violence and loss ever truly be broken, and what will it cost the woman who tries?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning Kerala, colonial Natal, and contemporary Johannesburg, \u003ci\u003eAlive\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping, deeply moving debut about what women inherit, not only trauma and grief, but tenderness, resilience, and the stubborn, luminous refusal to stop. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome inheritances are a burden. Some are a gift. This is the story of a woman who finally learned the difference.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nerina Naik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181600645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Nerina Naik","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148588523775,"sku":"9798181600645","price":15.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alive-nerina-naik-9798181600645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}