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The girl in the garden

Nair, Kamala. (Author).

Summary: The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret.

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  • ISBN: 9780446572682 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 305 p. : geneal. table ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Pub., 2011.
Subject: East Indian American women -- Fiction
East Indian Americans -- India -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Villages -- India -- Fiction
Gardens -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.

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  • 5 of 6 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.

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Summary: The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret.

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