![]() ![]() ![]() In the waiting room of the hospital, Ashoke is pacing like the other husbands and reading the Boston Globe. They were married in a traditional Indian ceremony, and now that they live in Cambridge, they have finally gotten to know each other and to become fond of each other. After they were betrothed, she learned his name. That moment felt especially intimate to her. ![]() Before she entered the room where he was waiting, she slid her feet into his shoes that had been left by the door. As she walks, Ashima remembers how she was introduced to Ashoke in Calcutta by their parents. Ashima uses a watch gifted to her by one of her family members to keep track of the length of her contractions.Ī friendly nurse, Patty, brings Ashima lunch and then leads her on a walk around the hospital to try to ease the delivery along. When they get there, Ashoke leaves Ashima in the bed surrounded by the nurses and waits with the other husbands. She begins to have her first contractions while cooking in the kitchen, and her husband, Ashoke, accompanies her to the hospital in a taxi. ![]() The year is 1968, and Ashima Ganguli, a Bengali woman who has recently moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her new husband, is about to give birth. ![]()
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