A graceful account of coming-of-age in a cultured household in Srinigar, a world long since erased with the partition of Kashmir and ongoing struggles. Koul interweaves the story of her family -- and especially of its women -- with tales of gods and goddesses, myths and cultural history, paying plenty of attention to the pleasures of food, fine textiles, and the life of the mind.  (IDA207, $15.00)