When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about  the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he  promised to take her there so she could meet her half-sister, Bachanu,  who had stayed behind. But at the age of sixteen - as she so vividly  related in her bestseller Shame - Jasvinder ran away from home to escape  a forced marriage. Her parents disowned her. 'Shame travels...' her  father told her. Although her mother took all her other daughters to  meet the extended family in the Punjab, Jasvinder was never allowed to  go. With her own daughter about to marry, Jasvinder decides to challenge  thirty years of rejection by going to India herself. She wants to  explore her roots and to see for herself the place her parents called  home until the day they died. What Jasvinder finds in India and what she  learns changes the way she sees the world, and has important lessons  for all of us. SHAME TRAVELS is not only a gripping and revealing quest,  but also an inspirational journey of the heart.