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Now in paperback, internationally bestselling author Indu Sundaresan presents a poignant collection of contemporary short stories about the challenges and consequences faced by women in Indian life today.
Like Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, Indu Sundaresan's In the Convent of Little Flowers gives readers an eloquent and illuminating collection of stories about contemporary Indian life, exploring the cutting-edge issues that surround the...
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"A beautiful, haunting story of one family, spanning generations and continents, as they face life's inevitable losses, struggle with grief and reach for redemption."
-Shilpi Somaya Gowda, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son
Perfect for readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Anne Tyler, Someone You Love Is Gone is a beautifully rendered, multi-generational story of secrets and ghosts that haunt a family.
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Before a big move, a little girl receives a handmade kurta from her Aaji, with two big pockets filled with small reminders of her grandparents, and she helps make two more kurtas for them, allowing the family to feel close despite the distance across a big ocean.
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"Since becoming a widow at age twenty-seven, Anjali Kapadia has devoted herself to transforming her parents' sari shop into a chic boutique, brimming with exquisite jewelry and clothing. Now ten years later, it stands out like a proud maharani amid Edison's bustling Little India. But when Anjali learns the shop is on the brink of bankruptcy, she feels her world unraveling..."--p.[4] of cover.
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When fifty-something Naina Mehta's husband unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, this imaginative suburban wife turns into a bold woman thirsty for new experiences, a far cry from the classic image of the aging Indian widow dressed in subdued colors and focused solely on her children and God. Naina also grew up in a society where historically widows have been expected to abandon all pleasure, particularly remarriage, and, in extreme cases, have even...
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"The hottest actor in Bollywood, Vikram Raawal has found love countless times--when he's playing a role. In real life, he's given up on finding a soul-deep connection and prefers to focus entirely on his career. Until at a masquerade ball, one woman leaves him craving more... Naina Menon's first impression of drop-dead gorgeous Vikram left much to be desired. But then one heart-stopping night shows her there's so much more to him than his celebrity...
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"Celebrated Bollywood heiress Anya Raawal lives her life in the spotlight. And fiercely protects the secret of an impossible choice she was once forced to make. But when she meets magnate Simon De Costa, a shocking discovery sets them on a collision course... Because Simon's adopted daughter is the child Anya had to give up! The connection between them is instant, yet it's clear the guarded widower buried his heart with his wife. Anya knows she can't...
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Mehar did not come to India planning to break up her estranged father's wedding, but she is convinced that socialite Naz is only after his money and title; except she soon begins to question many of her assumptions about her parents' relationship, and her own place in his world--especially when she begins to fall in love with Sufiya, her grandmother's assistant.
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Riya Desai and Dhillon Vora grew up together. Sharing secrets, hiding in their tree house, they were playmates, best friends and later-as teenagers-almost something more. Until the devastating house fire that ripped them apart, claiming the life of Dhillon's father and Riya's big brother, Samir. Riya and Dhillon have barely spoken since that terrible night, but they both made big decisions based on that fire. Riya has chosen to fight fire with everything...
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"An astonishingly assured debut from an award-winning writer, an emotionally rich portrait of contemporary India and its diaspora and a yearning rendering of the people and places we call home. Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting, The Best Possible Experience brings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one of the most populous countries in the world, and its American diaspora, all haunted, in every sense of the...
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"For actress Zara Khan, a pretend romance with an old flame, director Virat Raawal, is the ideal story to feed the press--and halt her family's attempts to marry her off. But after sparks reignite one scorching night, she has a very real pregnancy to go with their fake relationship... Virat is determined to do the right thing and claim Zara as his wife. He offers her everything in the world...save for the heart that he's locked firmly away. The trouble...
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"Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Houston. Meanwhile, single mom Jia Shah is already having a rough week: her twelve-year-old son, Ishaan, has just been suspended from school for getting in a fight. Still reeling from the fallout of her divorce—their move to Houston, her family’s disapproval, the struggle to make ends meet on her own—now Jia is worried about Ishaan’s future, too. Will her solo parenting be enough? Doesn’t a boy need a father?...
15) Invisible lives
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Downtown Press trade paperback edition.
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17) Hair oil magic
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Meenu discovers the magic in her culture's tradition of hair oiling, and the bond she shares with her mother and grandmother. Includes Meenu's magic hair day tips.
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"After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she...
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