The color of our sky : a novel / Amita Trasi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trasi, Amita, author.

Contributor:

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Friendship in children--Fiction.

Friendship in children.

Human trafficking--Fiction.

Human trafficking.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Mumbai (India)--Fiction.

Mumbai (India).

Local Subjects:

Human trafficking--Fiction.

Friendship in children--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

401 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old girl from the lower caste Yellamma cult of temple prostitutes has come of age to fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute. In an attempt to escape this legacy that binds her, Mukta is transported to a foster family in Bombay. There she discovers a friend in the high spirited eight-year-old Tara, the tomboyish daughter of the family, who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to a different world--ice cream and sweets, poems and stories, and a friendship the likes of which she has never experienced before. In 1993, Mukta is kidnapped from Tara's room. Eleven years later, Tara who blames herself for what happened, embarks on an emotional journey to search for the kidnapped Mukta only to uncover long buried secrets in her own family.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780062474070

0062474073

OCLC:

964708681