Chapter 50: One Year Later

A full year of ordinary Tuesdays and extraordinary Saturdays had passed since that first Mahanavami reckoning, a year of weddings and dance classes and one particularly memorable Diwali potluck that had nearly set off the Hall's brand-new smoke detectors, and none of it had dimmed, even slightly, the particular electric anticipation that gripped the whole town every autumn as Navratri approached a...