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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
βItβs time to stop fighting, and go home.β 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 sheβd ever had; her best friend and lover, Jazz, and the life theyβd 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 homeβmaking peace with Jazz, with her past, and even with herselfβthat is hard. With shades of Slumdog Millionaire and The Namesake, Roopa Farookiβs novel is luminous and gripping.
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