A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another.

What makes a woman successful? Is it something that changes from time to time, and country to country? Chitra Divakaruni discusses this important topic in the context of her new novel Before We Visit the Goddess, a brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love, where three generations of women must ask themselves this question.