An elderly woman in Punjab lies in bed, daydreaming of a pre-Partition India. She tells herself that one day she will walk again, and when she does, she will walk all the way to Delhi and tell the men who rule India what she truly believes. 'In Dark Star, Ranbir Sidhu not only considers the life of a shuttered, oppressed, but wildly imaginative woman; he becomes her, and the reader does as well. 'A lovely novel about transformation and heartbreaking compassion.' ? Helen Benedict, Wolf Season author. 'A masterwork. An elderly woman in India travels alone toward death in Ranbir Sidhu's Dark Star. Her hypnotic soliloquy is a devastating indictment of misogyny's horrors and nationalism's nightmare;