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Romola Mitra, freshly arrived in a boxy apartment building in an Illinois university town, anxiously awaits a letter from her husband back in India. A fateful misstep—opening the wrong envelope—sets her life on an unexpected path. Decades later, her son Amit stumbles upon the same letter as part of a search for his own identity. Believing he has uncovered a hidden truth about his mother, he confronts the layers of secrecy that bind their family, revealing the complexities of parentage, heritage, and the quiet resilience of those who live between worlds.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Sandip Roy
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