Thrity N Umrigar
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than twenty years. Yet after courageously speaking the truth about a heinous crime perpetrated against her own family, the devoted servant was cruelly fired. The sting of that dismissal was made more painful coming from Sera Dubash, the temperamental employer who had long been Bhima's only confidante. A woman who has endured despair...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the years following the sudden death of their seven-year-old son, Benny, Michigan residents Frank and Ellie Benton have witnessed the steady deterioration of their marriage. So when Frank?s boss offers him a position overseeing a company factory in the rural Indian city of Girbaug, Ellie convinces her husband it?s just the change they both need. From the start, Ellie, a therapist, basks in her new life, making friends with townspeople and volunteering...
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A young immigrant girl joins her aunt and uncle in a new country that is unfamiliar to her. She struggles with loneliness, with a fierce longing for the culture and familiarity of home, until one day, her aunt takes her on a walk. As the duo strolls through their city park, the girl's aunt begins to tell her an old myth, and a story within the story begins. A long time ago, a group of refugees arrived on a foreign shore. The local king met them,...