It is the mid-seventies, and Shaila has returned to Bombay for her father's sixtieth birthday party. In the linked stories that follow, Shree Gatage renders an India that can only be revealed by first leaving, and then returning again...
Apartment houses
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Author:Sylvester, KevinSummary:Secret ballrooms, hidden artwork and unlikely friends--welcome to the Regency, where even time moves in surprising ways! Jake Simmons hates his new home. The Regency is nothing more than floor after floor of peeling wallpaper and faded...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the...
- Author:Marks, JanaeSummary:
Joy Taylor loses her home, her friends, and her dreams of becoming a film score composer after her dad loses his job. However, Joy's friendly new neighbor, Nora, lets Joy in on the complex's best-kept secret: the Hideout, a...
- Author:Mistry, RohintonSummary:
A Fine Balance is in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a "State of Internal Emergency." Through days of...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
There is the surveyor who dreams of a membership in Muirfield golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother. There is the intellectual lady who sees herself as part of a much larger world. These characters and more confront issues of...
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