" the grandmother asked in the local Kannada language, her
irritation clear.
His interview with Sushilamma, the widow, was equally exhausting. The end of the interview had the quality of a bandage being slowly unwrapped from an open wound: She described many hours of pleading with doctors to tell her what was wrong with her husband.
"The worst part is I still don't know what happened," she said, her voice tinged with something more than grief.