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Details Author Reviews Description With This Spellbinding First Novel About The Destructive Lies Three Immigrant Generations Of A Pakistani/Bangladeshi Family Tell Each Other, Roopa Farooki Adds A Fresh New Voice To The Company Of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri And Arudhati Roy. Henna Rub Is A Precocious Teenager Whose Wheeler-dealer Father Never Misses A Business Opportunity And Whose Sumptuous Calcutta Marriag With This Spellbinding First Novel About The Destructive Lies Three Immigrant Generations Of A Pakistani/Bangladeshi Family Tell Each Other, Roopa Farooki Adds A Fresh New Voice To The Company Of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri And Arudhati Roy. Henna Rub Is A Precocious Teenager Whose Wheeler-dealer Father Never Misses A Business Opportunity And Whose Sumptuous Calcutta Marriage To Wealthy Romantic Ricky-Rashid Karim Is Achieved By An Audacious Network Of Lies. Ricky Will Learn The Truth About His Seductive Bride, But The Way Is Already Paved For A Future Of Double Lives And Deceptionfamily Traits That Will Filter Naturally Through The Generations, Forming An Instinctive And Unspoken Tradition. Even As A Child, Their Daughter Shona, Herself Conceived On A Lie And Born In A Liars House, Finds Telling Fibs As Easy As ABC. But Years Later, Living Above A Sweatshop In South Londons Tooting Bec, It Is Shona Who Is Forced To Discover Unspeakable Truths About Her Loved Ones And Come To Terms With What Superficially Holds Her Family Togetherand Also Keeps Them Apartacross Geographical, Emotional And Cultural Distance. Roopa Farooki Has Crafted An Intelligent, Engrossing And Emotionally Powerful Indian Family Saga That Will Stay With You Long After Youve Read The Last Page. With This Spellbinding First Novel About The Destructive Lies Three Immigrant Generations Of A Pakistani/Bangladeshi Family Tell Each Other, Roopa Farooki Adds A Fresh New Voice To The Company Of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri And Arudhati Roy. Henna Rub Is A Precocious Teenager Whose Wheeler-dealer Father Never Misses A Business Opportunity And Whose Sumptuous Calcutta Marriag With This Spellbinding First Novel About The Destructive Lies Three Immigrant Generations Of A Pakistani/Bangladeshi Family Tell Each Other, Roopa Farooki Adds A Fresh New Voice To The Company Of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri And Arudhati Roy. Henna Rub Is A Precocious Teenager Whose... Read More

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