Thank you to the author and Bookworms Anonymous for this book.

I guess this book would be classified magical realism. It's quite an unusual and original read. Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu G-d is her traveling companion and narrator, is annoying at first but then I got used to his "musings" throughout the book, some of which I skipped over because they were too long and hard to understand sometimes for me to comprehend.

Esther is left at the altar. She meets Abraham and marries him not for love obviously since she's still in love with her fiance. They have 3 children who she does seem to love or care about and only cared about making money with her seamstress skills. She sends the two oldest girls on the Kindertransport without a thought and then she flees to different places with her only son, via her underground connections and changes her name and becomes a Catholic. She's on the move constantly year to year it seems.

She ends up in India and she doesn't know why there but it's really because of the Hindu G-d statue Ganesha she sees in her hometown before fleeing and eating a samosa. She meets a priest on the ship to India, who guides her to a cave and then meets Ganesha. ( )