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  The legends of pensam book summary  The Legends of Pensam begins with a preface which phrases the narration. The prologue talks of a group of six people including the narrator drifting from Assam to Arunachal Pradesh. As the helicopter in which they are traveling leaves the plains behind and approaches the hills and mountains, the narrator reminiscences her childhood and the stories which sustained the dream-like integrity of the early years of her life. As she crosses the path which takes her back to the land of her birth, she attempts to bridge the disconnect between her past and her present, the stories that nourished her childhood, and the realities that maintain her adult life. The book begins with an explanation of the narrator’s return to Gurdum town, where she lived before she moved to the city. She along with her friend Mona toured together to Duyang which is the “village of widows” and the village of the narrator’s mother. The homecoming was the important part occasioned by