India, May 11 -- Actor, screenwriter and playwright Susmita Mukherjee's debut novel is an attempt to showcase the fragility of mother-daughter relationships across generations against the backdrop of the changing sociopolitical and cultural conditions of the day. The story opens with a struggling jatra troupe whose members travel from village to village in an overcrowded wagon performing before crowds of hecklers and barely saving enough to make ends meet. In the midst of this is Juhibaby. Named after the travelling theatre group's star performer, she is the fifth daughter of a poor couple in the troupe, who is looked after almost solely by her eldest sister. The book charts out Juhibaby's life from rural Bengal to Calcutta, to being married off to a Delhi-based government employee at 16 and, subsequently, her own challenging equations with her only daughter, Mee....