Only In Sri Lanka

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The world today is full of grandparents grabbing planes and trains and buses and heading interstate or overseas, just to visit our adult offspring and our grandchildren ... All year long, we walk around with empty arms that long to nurse the new baby grandsons and granddaughters who are born far from home, whilst saving and planning for our next annual visit to see them. We miss out on all their milestone stages of growth: the first tooth, sitting up, crawling, first steps, first words. In some cases there are other grandparents who live closer to our own grandchildren and they become the key figures, whilst we who are left behind pine for our brief, irregular contacts and become virtual strangers pining for our tiny spits in their lives.Now I too had become part of the 'grandmothers who run around the world to see their offspring' brigade.During her many visits to Sri Lanka, Gloria Meltzer attempts to understand the world of her three Australian/Sri Lankan grandchildren, while gaining a unique window into the village family life of her Sinhalese daughter-in-law. This is also the story of her son's efforts to build and run a five-star hotel, with all its attendant dramas, in the aftermath of the civil war and the 2004 tsunami. In time, she comes to realise that her loss is great, and yet so are her gains.A funny, sad, and insightful look into life in Sri Lanka.