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The Portion
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 430
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Grace Persaud has lived in the same house in Queens Village for forty years. She keeps the kitchen clean, dinner on time, and her opinions close to her husband's. When Ravi - a Guyanese immigrant who turned overtime shifts and side jobs into a small portfolio of properties - leaves his entire estate to their younger son Ashton, Grace feels something she cannot name. Not disagreement exactly. Just something not right.
Kaden, the older son, asks his father a single question: What did I do wrong?
What follows is a story of two brothers, an unequal inheritance, and a family that comes apart at the Sunday dinner table. Told entirely through Grace's voice - a woman who sees everything and understands just enough to break your heart - The Portion traces what happens when pride becomes the only thing a man refuses to let go of, and love becomes a plate wrapped in foil that no one comes to collect.
The Portion is a novel about what we inherit, what we waste, and the mothers who keep setting the table long after everyone has stopped coming home.
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