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• The Sadness of Geography

  My Life as a Tamil Exile

  Tharmathurai, Logathasan, 1966-

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  The harrowing journey of a teenage refugee who never gave up on his dream of seeing his family again. Born to a wealthy family in northern Sri Lanka, Logathasan Tharmathurai and his family lost everything during the long and brutal Sri Lankan Civil…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mansions of the Moon

  a Novel

  Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965-

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  A breathtaking reimagining of ancient India through the extraordinary life of Yasodhara, the woman who married the Buddha.

• A Night with a Black Spider

  Stories

  Ambai • Vasudevan, Aniruddhan

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  A mother, daughter, and solver of all problems for her family, finds that it is only a black spider on a wall in a deserted guesthouse.

• Blue-skinned Gods

  a Novel

  Sindu, S. J.

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  A brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality. In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin.

• One Part Woman

  a Novel

  Perumāḷmurukan̲

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  One Part Woman lays bare with unsparing clarity a relationship caught between the dictates of social convention and the tug of personal anxieties.

• Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

  Selvadurai, Shyam

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  A coming-of-age novel written by Shyam Selvadurai set in Sri Lanka in 1980, during the monsoon season.

• The Bridge Home

  Venkatraman, Padma, 1969-

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  A contemporary story of two sisters in India who run away from their abusive father and have to survive on the streets of a big city.

• The Boat People

  a Novel

  Bala, Sharon

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  A spellbinding and gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada.

• The Ramayana

  a Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

  Narayan, R. K., 1906-2001

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