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Bloomsbury USA
February 2015
On Sale: January 20, 2015
Featuring: Romola Mitra; Amit
256 pages
ISBN: 1620408988
EAN: 9781620408988
Kindle: B00QTALRD4
Hardcover / e-Book
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In a boxy apartment building in an Illinois university
town,
Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously
awaits
her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally
opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades
letter,
her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has
discovered
his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets
sometimes. Amit does not know that Avinash, his dependable and
devoted
father, has been timidly visiting gay chat rooms, driven
by
the lifelong desires he never allowed himself to indulge.
Avinash, for his part, doesn't understand what his dutiful
wife gave up in marrying him -- the memories of romance
she
keeps tucked away. Growing up in Calcutta, in a house bustling with feisty
grandmothers, Amit has been shielded from his parents'
secrets. Now he's a successful computer engineer, settled
in
San Franscisco yet torn between his new life and his
duties
to the one he left behind. Moving from adolescent rooftop games to adult encounters
in
gay bars, from hair salons in Calcutta to McDonald's
drive-thrus in California, Don't Let Him Know is an
unforgettable story about family and the sacrifices we
make
for those we love. Tender, funny, and beautifully told, it
marks the arrival of a resonant new voice.
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