The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das

Merrily Weisbord found Das's work so compelling that she flew to South India to meet her. The Love Queen of Malabar is the story of their decade-long friendship, an experiment in mutual revelation. Recounting the development of their relationship, Weisbord relates the dramatic events of Das's life, including her transition from celibacy to sexual show more awakening at age sixty-seven when, provoking the greatest scandal of her notorious life, she converted to Islam for love and renewal. show less