Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. When people talk about generational trauma,

I sometimes feel like they're talking about two related, but kind of different things.

There's the type that's like, my great-grandpa messed up my grandpa, who messed up my dad,

who messed me up. And then there's a version that goes, some major historical,

likely horrific event happened generations ago, and I still bear the scars of that.

Today, we've got two books that deal with different sides of this, and they both happen to

take place in India. In a bit, we'll hear from the author of the book Mirror Made of Rain,

who says that when her book first came out in India,

the main character incited so much anger

that critics wrote that they wished they could physically assault her.

It's wild.

But first, Anjali and Jetti's book, The Parted Earth,

deals with the partition of the Indian subcontinent by British colonizers

into the majority Muslim, Pakistan,

and the majority Hindu India, triggering the largest migration in human history.

And NJETI talked to NPR Steve Inskeep about how violent it was and how it still affects people today.

You'll hear her start off the interview.

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it was East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh and West Pakistan, which is on the northwest part of

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