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A woman caught between her modern American life and her ties to the son she unwittingly left behind in India
Kensington
August 2010
On Sale: July 27, 2010
Featuring: Vinita Patil
352 pages
ISBN: 0758232039
EAN: 9780758232038
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Contemporary | Multicultural
In The Unexpected Son, it is a morning like any other in suburban New Jersey when Vinita Patil opens the battered envelope postmarked "Mumbai." But the letter inside turns her comfortable world upside down. It tells Vinita an impossible story: she has a grown son in India whose life may depend on her. Once upon a time, a naive young college girl fell for a wealthy boy whose primary interests were cricket and womanizing. Vinita knew, even then, that a secret affair with a man whose language and values were different from her own was a mistake. He finished with her soon enough--leaving her to birth a baby that was stillborn, or so Vinita was told. Now, that child is a grown man in desperate need. To help her son, to know him, Vinita must revisit her darkest hours by returning to her battle-scarred homeland--and pray for the faith of the family she leaves behind.
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