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The Color of Our Sky: A Novel by Trasi, Amita

ISBN: 9780062474070 PUBLISHER: William Morrow & Company FORMAT: Paperback 0 PUBLICATION DATE: 1.04.2017 DIMENSIONS: 20.32 x 13.46 x 2.29 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voicea sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night.India, 1986: Mukta, a tenyearold 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 uppermiddle class family in Mumbai. There she discovers a friend in the daughter of the family, high spirited eightyearold Tara, who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to an entirely different worldone 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 longburied secrets in her own family that might explain what happened to Muktaand why she came to li

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