You don’t live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,’ Reena was indignant. ‘It’s five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.

Renita D'Silva

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What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family.

Renita D'Silva

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There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain...

Renita D'Silva

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You are a girl, Shirin. Girls don’t run around naked.’‘Why?’‘They just don’t.

Renita D'Silva

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Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?’ ‘No, Ma.’ ‘Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?

Renita D'Silva

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She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. ‘Get to the point; don’t allow the subject to digress’ was one of them

Renita D'Silva

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She opened up the glass jar she kept spare buttons in and began sorting through them. It was like handling bits and pieces of the past—buttons from loved ones’ dresses and suits and coats carefully gathered up and saved for future use. She had inherited many of the buttons from her mother and grandmother, even her Great Aunt Maggie. Each woman adding to the collection, like curators of a family museum. Now what would happen to them?

Elizabeth Jennings

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She’d discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from hard work.

V.S. Kemanis

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She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work.

Stacy Hawkins Adams

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The door wasn’t closing. Shiloh’s spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities.

Stacy Hawkins Adams

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