| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
326 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"Rakhi is a twenty-three-year-old haunted by the grisly aftermath of an incident that led to the loss of her best friend eleven years ago. Constantly reminded she doesn’t belong, Rakhi lives alone in a Mumbai slum, working as a lowly office assistant at Justice For All, a struggling human-rights law organization headed by the renowned lawyer who gave her a fresh start. Fiercely intelligent and in possession of a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue, Rakhi is nobody’s fool, even if she is underestimated by everyone around her. Rakhi’s life isn’t much, but she’s managing. That is, until Rubina Mansoor, a fading former Bollywood starlet, tries to edge her way back into the spotlight by becoming a celebrity ambassador for Justice For All. Steering the organization into uncharted territories, she demands an internship for Alex, a young family friend from Canada and Harvard-bound graduate student. Ambitious, persistent, and naïve, Alex persuades Rakhi to show him “the real” India. In exchange, he’ll do something to further Rakhi’s dreams in a transaction that seems harmless, at first. As old guilt and new aspirations collide, everything Rakhi once knew to be true is set ablaze. And as the stakes mount, she will come face-to-face with the difficult choices and moral compromises that people make in order to survive, no matter the cost."-- Publisher's website. |
| Subject(S) |
Ethical problems -- Fiction.
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Street children -- India -- Fiction.
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Best friends -- Death -- Fiction.
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Human rights workers -- Fiction.
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Children of the rich -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- Fiction.
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City life.
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Friendship.
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Social classes.
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Exploitation.
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Greed.
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Poverty.
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Mumbai -- Fiction.
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Social problem fiction.
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Fiction. |
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Social. |
| ISBN |
9780593499504 (hardcover) |
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0593499506 (hardcover) |
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