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Author
Publisher
Harper/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and grocery store. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
365 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Filled with wrenching memories, their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable, and their marriage founders. But an unexpected job half a world away offers them an opportunity to start again. Life in Girbaug, India, holds promise, and peril, when Frank befriends Ramesh, a bright, curious boy who quickly becomes the focus...
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