Lords of serendipity a novel
"Devi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Katrina is a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Devi's father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter's Indian tutor, who might not be the Oxford...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First US and Canadian editions. |
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| Summary: | "Devi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Katrina is a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Devi's father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter's Indian tutor, who might not be the Oxford student he claims to be on WhatsApp. Katrina's father teaches extra courses at a mediocre technical university to pay for his daughter's lifestyle. Meanwhile, his tech bro teaching assistant expertly extorts money from international students worried about failing school. Set between contemporary Sri Lanka and the United States, Lords of Serendipity is a wry, moving and sharply observed story about how rich and poor alike try to get ahead by going to university. It's about dreams and ambition meeting corruption and hypocrisy. It's about what parents are willing to do for their children, and about what strivers and hustlers are willing to do when they meet gatekeepers. This is the twenty-first-century global campus novel, a story about two teenage girls from opposite sides of the world with the same dream: four years in a quadrangle-shaped paradise that offers lots of super amazing courses and super amazing protests. The novel couldn't be more timely in this absurd and perilous-feeling moment for both American life and university education."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 339 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780063474857 0063474859 9781443477901 1443477907 |
