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Patel, Reema.
Subjects
Slums -- India -- Fiction.
Poor -- India -- Fiction.
Human rights -- India -- Fiction.
Civil rights lawyers -- Fiction.
Law offices -- Fiction.
Graduate students -- Fiction.
Street children -- Fiction.
Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.
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Patel, Reema.
Slums -- India -- Fiction.
Poor -- India -- Fiction.
Human rights -- India -- Fiction.
Civil rights lawyers -- Fiction.
Law offices -- Fiction.
Graduate students -- Fiction.
Street children -- Fiction.
Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.
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Such big dreams : a novel / Reema Patel.
by
Patel, Reema.
McClelland & Stewart, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION
PAT
Subjects
Slums
--
India
--
Fiction
.
Poor
--
India
--
Fiction
.
Human
rights
--
India
--
Fiction
.
Civil
rights
lawyers
--
Fiction
.
Law offices
--
Fiction
.
Graduate students
--
Fiction
.
Street children
--
Fiction
.
Mumbai (
India
)
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780771073717 (trade pbk)
Description:
384 p. ; cm.
Summary:
"Rakhi is a twenty-three-year-old former street child haunted by the grisly aftermath of an incident that led her to lose her best friend eleven years ago. Constantly reminded she doesn't belong, Rakhi lives alone in a Mumbai slum, working as a lowly office assistant at Justice For All, a struggling
human
rights
law office headed by the renowned lawyer who gave her a fresh start. Fiercely intelligent and in possession of a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue, Rakhi is nobody's fool, even if she is underestimated by everyone around her. Rakhi's life isn't much, but she's managing. That is until a fading former Bollywood starlet tries to edge her way back into the spotlight by becoming a celebrity ambassador for Justice For All. Steering the organization into uncharted territories, she demands an internship for her young Canadian family friend, Alex, a Harvard-bound graduate student. Ambitious, persistent, and naive, Alex persuades Rakhi to show him the real
India
. In exchange, he'll do something to further Rakhi's dreams in a transaction that seems harmless, at first. As old guilt and new aspirations collide, everything Rakhi once knew to be true is set ablaze. And as the stakes mount, she will come face to face with the difficult choices and moral compromises that people are prepared to make in order to survive, no matter the costs. Reema Patel's transportive debut novel offers a moving, smart, and arrestingly funny look at the cost of ambition and power in reclaiming one's story."--Publisher.
Genre:
Legal stories.
Canadian
fiction
.
Social commentary
fiction
.
Literary
fiction
.
First novel.
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