Oleander girl /

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956-

Oleander girl / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. - First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. - 289 pages ; 22 cm

Includes reading group guide, and a conversation with the author.

Enjoying a sheltered childhood with adoring grandparents but troubled by the silence surrounding her parents' deaths, 17-year-old Korobi is prompted by a love note among her mother's possessions and a fiance's shattering revelation to travel from India to post-September 11 America in search of her true identity.

9780143422495 (pbk.)


Fiancées--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.


Kolkata (India)--Fiction.
United States--Fiction.