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Four Aleys is a novel that tells the multi-generational story of four Syrian Christian women, all called Aley (Malayalam for Elizabeth) who are part of a large landowning family and set in the imagined town of Kalam which is on the island of Kanyadhan in the state of Devanidhi, the metaphoric Kerala.The story flashes back over the life of the youngest woman, Little Aley, starting with her childhood as a carefree child of a doting family, playing with her pet monkey, building a tree house. Then change comes. Old obedient retainers start talking back to the patriarch of the family. An uncle is found murdered in his large plantation.