Atlas of Unknowns ~ by Tania James, 2009, humorous fiction (India and New York), 338 pages
Two sisters yearn to disappear into another country. Linno is a gifted artist, despite a childhood accident that has left her badly maimed, and Anju is one of the most promising students of Kerala (a state on India's tropical Malabar Coast). Both girls dream of coming to the United States, but it is Anju who wins a scholarship to a prestigious school in New York. She seizes it, even though it means lying and betraying her sister. When her lie is discovered, Anju disappears. Back in Kerala, Linno is undergoing a transformation of her own. But when she learns of Anju’s disappearance, Linno strikes out farther still, with a scheme to procure a visa so that she can come to America to look for her sister and save them both.
When I re-shelved books in the Crown Center library, I noticed this book. It looks interesting, and it's on the fiction shelves alphabetically by author.
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I love the look of the library at the Crown Center and it's so great that you get to work/volunteer there. I toured a local retirement home with my parents and, of course, gravitated to the library.
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