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author: Badami, Anita Rau

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Language: English
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Viking
Publishing year: 1996
Length: 08:38 Hours / 272 Pages

Book summary:

Kamini has recently moved to Canada from India, but a series of acrimonious telephone calls plunges her into her family's past. Through Kamini, we meet her mother, Saroja, and learn of Saroja's passage from youthful dreams of becoming a doctor to a bitter old age, her young life marred by an arranged marriage to a man twice her age.


 
 
 
 
 

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