The museum of failures a novel

"Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have giv...

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Main Author: Umrigar, Thrity N. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
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650 0 |a Homecoming  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Mothers and sons  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Family secrets  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Mumbai (India)  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Adoption  |v Fiction. 
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