Waiting for the Monsoon by Threes Anna

It's Rampur, India in the year 1995. Money is scarce and a monsoon is on the horizon. It is not until the deadly storm hits that people's true characters come out

By Laurie Grassi

Updated November 2, 2012

Forgotten ties stretching back years bind the headstrong daughter of a wealthy British military man and a mute itinerant Indian tailor in this tale told in flashbacks and touched by magical realism.

Waiting for the Monsoon, Threes Anna, $25.

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