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Once We Were There

✍ Scribed by Bernice Chauly

Publisher: Epigram Books
Year: 2019;2017
Tongue: English
Weight: 213 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

It is 1944 in India and Nimita Khosla yearns to attend university to become an engineer, but her parents want a different life for her. As she accepts her fate and marries, religious upheaval is splitting the country and forcing her family to find a new home.In 2014, her granddaughter, molecular biologist Nimita Sachdev, escapes India to run away from the prospect of an arranged marriage. Staking out a future in Singapore, she faces rising anger against immigrants and uncertainty about her new home.Two generations apart, these two women walk divergent paths but face the same quandaries: who are we, and what is home?

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