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Also by Kay Marshall Strom:

The Love Of Divena, October 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Hope Of Shridula, March 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Faith of Ashish, August 2011
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The Triumph Of Grace, February 2011
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The Voyage Of Promise, October 2010
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The Call Of Zulina, August 2009
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THE HOPE OF SHRIDULA
By: Kay Marshall Strom

Abingdon Press
March 2012
On Sale: March 1, 2012
Featuring: Shridula; Ashish
352 pages
ISBN: 1426709099
EAN: 9781426709098
Kindle: B00711WDCO
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Women's Fiction

India: 1946. “Blessing!” Ashish murmured. “Such a name for a man cursed by a million gods!” For forty-eight years, his family toiled as slaves in the fields of the high-caste Lal family, and all because of one small debt. Ashish and his family knew nothing of the hatred for the British seething around them, nor of the struggle for independence that simmered throughout India. At fifty-four, Ashish was old and worn out. His wife had died long before—how many years, he had no idea.

Even though he had four sons to work beside him in the fields, every day was a struggle to survive. Sometimes his only daughter worked, too, but she also cooked and cleaned and kept the clothes in repair. His wife had named the girl Shridula—Blessings. “Perhaps the name will bring you more fortune than it brought me,” Ashish told his daughter. His words proved to be prophetic in ways he could never have imagined. And when the flames of revolt brought independence to India, they seared change into the families of Ashish and Lal.