Such Big Dreams
A Novel
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Such Big Dreams
Narrateur(s):
Lavanya Gandhi
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Narrateur(s):
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Lavanya Gandhi
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Auteur(s):
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Reema Patel
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With a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue, Rakhi Kumar is nobody’s fool. Though she lives alone in a Mumbai slum and works as a lowly office assistant for the renowned lawyer, Gauri Verma, who gave her a fresh start, Rakhi has come a long way from her time as a former street child. Most importantly, she's busy enough to distract herself from the nightmares of the grisly incident that led to the disappearace of her best friend.
Fiercely intelligent, Rakhi could be doing so much more than making chai, but she allows herself to be underestimated by her colleagues at Justice For All, Gauri's cash-strapped human rights law office. 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. An ambitious, naive rich kid, 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.
Captivating!
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The story felt a bit contrived and western at times but I liked what it was conveying overall and definitely liked the ending. Hard to capture the authentic voice and experience of children living on the street. A long way home by saroo brierly conveyed the experience better imo. However the author did an excellent job in overall story arch which kept me interested until the end. I even felt a surge of inspiration in Rakhi’s confidence in the end.
Excellent book
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Unusual and excellent
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I could not stop listening!
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