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Houghton Mifflin
May 2011
On Sale: May 17, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0618646531
EAN: 9780618646531
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Anjali Bose is “Miss New India.” Born into a traditional
lower-middle-class family and living in a backwater town
with an arranged marriage on the horizon, Anjali’s prospects
don’t look great. But her ambition and fluency in language
do not go unnoticed by her expat teacher, Peter Champion.
And champion her he does, both to other powerful people who
can help her along the way and to Anjali herself, stirring
in her a desire to take charge of her own destiny. So she sets off to Bangalore, India’s fastest-growing major
metropolis, and quickly falls in with an audacious and
ambitious crowd of young people, who have learned how to
sound American by watching shows like Seinfeld in order to
get jobs as call-center service agents, where they are
quickly able to out-earn their parents. And it is in this
high-tech city where Anjali—suddenly free from the
traditional confines of class, caste, gender, and more—is
able to confront her past and reinvent herself. Of course,
the seductive pull of modernity does not come without a dark
side . . .
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