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St. Martin's Press
July 2011
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Featuring: Aruna Ahmed Jones; Dr. Patrick Jones
272 pages
ISBN: 0312577915
EAN: 9780312577919
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Women's Fiction
“It’s time to stop fighting, and go home.” Those were the
words, written by a minor but well-reputed Bengali poet,
that finally persuaded Aruna Ahmed Jones to exit her
ground-floor Victorian flat wearing only jeans and a
t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag,
and keep on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick
Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to
Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore, and
her old life. When Aruna left for London, she was fleeing many things: her
recently deceased father, the only family she’d ever had;
her best friend and lover, Jazz, and the life they’d tried,
and failed, to create together; the complicated
psychological diagnosis she preferred to forget. But after years of fleeing the ghosts that continue to haunt
her, Aruna is about to discover that running away is really
the easy part; it is coming home—making peace with Jazz,
with her past, and even with herself—that is hard. With
shades of Slumdog Millionaire and The Namesake, Roopa
Farooki’s novel is luminous and gripping.
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