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This debut novel by Padma Venkatraman, an adjunct professor and director of graduate diversity at URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, is a fine, straightforwardly spun tale of 15-year-old Vidya, growing up in Bombay in 1941, then exiled to Madras.
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