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William Morrow
April 2017
On Sale: April 18, 2017
416 pages
ISBN: 0062474073
EAN: 9780062474070
Kindle: B01J16RIRG
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Women's Fiction
In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi
Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new
voice—a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends
in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change
forever one fateful night. India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old village girl from the
lower caste Yellama cult has come of age and must fulfill
her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute, as her mother
and grandmother did before her. In an attempt to escape her
fate, Mukta is sent to be a house girl for an upper-middle
class family in Mumbai. There she discovers a friend in the
daughter of the family, high spirited eight-year-old Tara,
who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara
introduces Mukta to an entirely different world—one of ice
cream, reading, and a friendship that soon becomes a
sisterhood. But one night in 1993, Mukta is kidnapped from Tara’s family
home and disappears. Shortly thereafter, Tara and her father
move to America. A new life in Los Angeles awaits them but
Tara never recovers from the loss of her best friend, or
stops wondering if she was somehow responsible for Mukta's
abduction. Eleven years later, Tara, now an adult, returns to India
determined to find Mukta. As her search takes her into the
brutal underground world of human trafficking, Tara begins
to uncover long-buried secrets in her own family that might
explain what happened to Mukta—and why she came to live with
Tara’s family in the first place. Moving from a traditional Indian village to the bustling
modern metropolis of Mumbai, to Los Angeles and back again,
this is a heartbreaking and beautiful portrait of an
unlikely friendship—a story of love, betrayal, and,
ultimately, redemption.
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