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010 $a 2018296275
020 $a9780062474070 (pbk.) :$cNT$560
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPS3620.R3736$bC65 2017
082 04$a813.6$222
100 1 $aTrasi, Amita,$eauthor.
245 14$aThe color of our sky /$cAmita Trasi.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,$c[2017].
300 $a401 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $a1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old girl from the lower caste Yellamma cult of temple prostitutes has come of age to fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute. In an attempt to escape this legacy that binds her, Mukta is transported to a foster family in Bombay. There she discovers a friend in the high spirited eight-year-old Tara, the tomboyish daughter of the family, who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to a different world--icecream and sweets, poems and stories, and a friendship the likes of which she has never experienced before. In 1993, Mukta is kidnapped from Tara's room. Eleven years later, Tara who blames herself for what happened, embarks on an emotionaljourney to search for the kidnapped Mukta only to uncover long buried secrets in her own family.
650 0$aFriendship in children$vFiction.
650 0$aHuman trafficking$vFiction.
650 0$aFamily secrets$vFiction.
651 0$aMumbai (India)$vFiction.