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  • WATER
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    WATER
    BAPSI SIDHWA
    An eight-year-old is sent to live in a community of widows in India, and finds a new purpose there, in a novel by "a writer of enormous talent" ( Newsday). Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi's rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow's ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she must live in penitence until her ...

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  • THE PAKISTANI BRIDE
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    THE PAKISTANI BRIDE
    BAPSI SIDHWA
    A Pakistani teenager is trapped by tradition in this tale by "Pakistan's finest English-language novelist" ( New York Times). Wild, austere, and magnificently beautiful, the territories of northern Pakistan are a forbidding place, particularly for women. Traveling alone from the isolated mountain village where he was born, Qasim, a tribal man, takes Zaitoon, an orphaned girl, f...

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  • AN AMERICAN BRAT
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    AN AMERICAN BRAT
    BAPSI SIDHWA
    A sheltered Pakistani girl is sent to America by her parents, with unexpected results: "Entertaining, often hilarious . . . Not just another immigrant's tale." — Publishers Weekly Feroza Ginwalla, a pampered, protected sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl, is sent to America by her parents, who are alarmed by the fundamentalism overtaking Pakistan—and influencing their daughter. Hop...

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  • CRACKING INDIA
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    CRACKING INDIA
    BAPSI SIDHWA
    A New York Times Notable Book: A girl's happy home life is suddenly disrupted by the 1947 Partition of India in this "multifaceted jewel of a novel" ( Houston Chronicle). Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She spends her days with Ayah, her beautiful nanny, visiting with the many admirers that Ayah draws. It is in the company of these workin...

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