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The Year of the Runaways
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October 31, 2016
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Sera
Jan 23, 2017 rated it it was amazing
What a great book! It's a compelling story about a group of young men who emigrate from India to the UK to find work to create a better life for themselves and to help support their families back home, and a young woman who sacrifices her honor and that of her family to help one of these men succeed in his quest. It was interesting to read about the immigration experience outside of the US, but many of the themes are the same - for example, the struggle to meet one's basic needs when one has the ...more
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