This fictional novel by Taslima Nasirn refects the house on the banks of the river Brahmaputra as fragrance of memories. A Home together with siblings all through childhood, adolescence and youth. Relationships are scattered across the subcontinent and continents in a new age filled with the intricacies and breakdowns of modern life. The loneliness and isolation of human life freely casts a shadow over this feminist novel. The novel also contains the autobiography of a writer who had to flee her homeland.