Purple Days
Full of humor and humanity, Purple Days follows young, cynical Indira on a journey to bury her father, both literally and metaphorically, restoring her memory of and love for him along the way.
Indira’s father is dead. In spite of all his efforts, the great cycling enthusiast and spinach addict was swept away by what he feared most: cancer. His dying wish – for his ashes to be sent to Mars – confuses Indira before she realizes that Mars is none other than the name of her father’s favorite pub, perched high on a mountain, where he spent his summers drinking ice-cold beers and admiring the view.
As Indira finds herself sitting on a sweaty bus heading up into the Pyrenees, she almost immediately regrets her decision to honor the deceased’s wish. Worse, she is not alone on her trip – her father’s closest friends, whom she’d always ignored, have come along for the ride.
Amidst bus breakdowns and wrong turns, Indira gets to know her fellow passengers, and through them, the father she had given up loving. Sunraj was athletic, small, Mauritian, but he was also altruistic, loyal (when it suited him), sensitive, and a bit of a liar. Above all, he was in love. Indira discovers that the stony-hearted father who only ever showed affection for his bicycle was gay, and he shared a great love story with the man he called his best friend. A man who is now sitting at the back of the bus…