The premise of the novel 'The Azure of Solicitude' is the story of three families. The poor families of Kora and Kunjeppu reside at Kakkathuruthu, the eyot-village in the Lake Vembanadu, while rich Kuriammamothalalan resides alone at the shore-village Achankara which is beside Kakkathuruthu with a rivulet as the boundary of the two villages.

      The protagonist Eappan a college going youth is the son of Kora and Tharathy. Kora has a lime making kiln, where he and his male children work. Sara the first daughter of Kora a spinster and her sisters Ely and Lilly make coir yarns using rotten husk fibres of coconut. And their neighbourhood family members earn bread by making mats using wild pineapple leaves and more >>>