The British-born Shergill sisters—Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirina—were never close and barely got along growing up, and now as adults, have grown even further apart. In this novel by the author of Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, school principal Rajni is a stickler for order; actress Jezmeen fears her big break may never come; and peacemaker Shirina married into wealth and enjoys a picture-perfect life. On her deathbed, their mother voices one last wish: that her daughters will make a pilgrimage together to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out her final rites. Improbably enough, the sisters do go, and all three make unexpected discoveries about themselves, but also their mother and the life she left behind.