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Voice of the rain season

Rummaging through their dead parents’ letters from relatives in India, Manjula, a second-generation Indian-American and her sister Nilima make a startling discovery. Their mother had had a twin sister who had lived in India with whom she has been estranged for over a quarter of a century. A woman, whose very existence, Manjula and Nilima had never known of.

<div style=""text-align:" justify;"=""> The mystery of this family secret remains unexplained for over three decades until, one Thanksgiving weekend in her Houston home, Manjula meets her grandson’s girl friend Joya, a literature graduate student from Calcutta. A friendship quickly forms between the two. And thus begins their quest to resolve the mystery of Manjula’s mother and the unknown aunt. The quest becomes a voyage of discovery reaching back to a past that seems almost a foreign country, spanning three continents and four generations. A story is unveiled, of love and betrayal, of lies and secrets, of loss and recovery, of family bonds broken and restored. A story filled with music. And it reveals, above all, the truth about the twin sisters, a truth so unimagined, so explosive, that it changes the very fabric of Manjula’s sense of identity.

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