Summarize the plot of clear light of day.

Clear Light of Day is divided into
four sections; the first and fourth sections are located in the present novelistic
moment, and the two middle chapters are memories of the summer of 1948, when political
and personal events came to a head in the Das family. By building the two central
chapters up to a dramatic pitch, Anita Desai weaves together the political and personal
past of the Das sisters, Bim and Tara, whose reminiscences and reconciliation constitute
the plot. The main theme of the novel concerns a reinterpretation of past events that
have cast...