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Author:
Rai, Dipika.
Title:
Someone else's garden : a novel / Dipika Rai.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publisher:
Harper Perennial,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
382 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Women--India--Social conditions--Fiction.
Caste--India--Fiction.
India--Fiction.
Summary:
The eldest of seven children born low-caste in rural India, Mamta is abused and rejected by a father who can see no reason to "water someone else's garden" until a husband is found for her. Seeking escape in matrimony, Mamta is soon forced to flee her village and the horrors of her arranged marriage to the bustle of a small city, where she struggles to find a precarious state of acceptance and make peace with her past.
ISBN:
0062000357 (pbk.) :
9780062000354 (pbk.) :
OCLC:
(OCoLC)641534005
Locations:
WCPC115 -- Alta Community Library (Alta)
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

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