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HPL Fall Fiction 2022
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"Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena--a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man--Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one's own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful...
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"When his brilliant and eccentric grandfather, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the business. But Kemal has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, an aged woman in a Los Angeles retirement home. Her existence and secrecy about her past only deepen the mystery of why he would leave their home to this woman rather than to his own family. Intent on righting this injustice,...
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