This is a cute book for kids - well, girls, probably, since boys don't like to read about girls so much, which is really too bad.Dini - Nandini for long - is forced to leave her home in Maryland, to go to India for two years, where her doctor mother has a grant to run a clinic for mothers and bab...
West meets EastAlthough Maya has done her best to avoid it, she is spending part of her summer in Chennai, India, with her mother, who is trying to sell her grandfather's old house. Soon Maya is drawn into a complicated friendship with eccentric Kamala Mami, who has been a housekeeper and cook fo...
“Did you like it?” he asks. “It was … interesting,” I say. “But why was it so perfect for me?” I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but I can’t help myself. I am puzzled and it just comes bursting out that way. “Ah,” he says. “T...
