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From the best-selling writer of The Mistress of Spices, a sweeping, suspenseful, atmospheric coming-of-age novel about a young woman who leaves India for America over a search that will change her life. Beloved by critics and listeners, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Junot Diaz as a "brilliant storyteller" and by People journal as a "skilled cartographer of the heart". Now, Divakaruni results with her most gripping novel yet. Orphaned at labor and birth, 17-year-old Korobi Roy is the scion of a recognized Kolkata family and has savored a privileged, sheltered childhood with her adoring grandparents. But she is stressed by the silence that surrounds her parents' fatality and clings fiercely to her only inheritance from them: the love be aware she found covered in her mother's e book of poetry. Korobi dreams of 1 day finding a love as powerful as her parents', and it appears her wish has become a reality when she meets the lovely Rajat, really the only son of a high-profile business family. But soon after their proposal, a heart attack kills Korobi's grandfather, revealing serious financial problems and a disastrous secret about Korobi's former. Shattered by this finding and by her grandparents' betrayal, Korobi undertakes a courageous search across post-9/11 America to find her true personal information. Her dramatic, often startling quest will finally thrust her in to the most difficult decision of her life.
