When a young American traveler falls in love with and marries a beautiful Balinese girl, all the promise of "The Morning of the World" seems to await. But twenty years later and far too late, he discovers the awful purpose behind the elaborate Hindu ceremonies arranged by his wife at the birth of their children. This memoir of a family racked by unthinkable betrayal lays bare an astonishing truth at the heart of an island the world cherishes as The Last Paradise.