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Divya Kapoor arrives in California from the immigrant ghetto of Queens with her husband and children to start over. Within days she redis-covers her friends from her exclusive Himalayan hill town girls school. ! ey commit to a picking up their old pastime and meeting weekly at one another’s homes to eat and share and gossip, and to play the popular Indian version of rummy.

Soon life’s dramas shake them up. Brilliant Alka’s thwarted ambitions and her dissatisfying marriage have turned her into an obsessive Tiger Mother. Big-hearted Priya must face the truth about her collapsing marriage. Divya herself lies awake at night struggling with her envy of the comfortable stability her friends have already attained. And, in one unexpected moment, beautiful Mini suddenly becomes a widow.

When the worst befalls Alka’s son and Divya’s frustrations spill over into the rummy game, their once dependable world is torn apart. Will Alka’s son make it? Will Alka and Divya repair their friendship? Will Priya’s " edgling business and her blossoming relationship with a Hispanic hunk survive? Will Mini marry a WASP? Will the four friends ever play rummy together again?

Anoop Ahuja Judge is an attorney whose # rst book Law; What It’s All About and How to Get In was published by Twenty-Twenty Media in New Delhi, India as part of a series of Dummies-style books about di$ erent careers open to college grads.

She has lived in the San Francisco-Bay Area for the past 23 years. She is married with two nearly grown and fully admirable children.

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Fiction — U.S. $16.95

“A touching novel about four friends whose lives take them from an exclusive Indian boarding school to the unfamiliar landscape of Bay Area, California.

! is is an honest and compelling portrait of how long-lasting friendships evolve over the years. It’s also a story about bad choices, good choices,

second chances and forgiveness. A great choice for book clubs! ” — Susan J. Breen, Author of The Fiction Class