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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

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Waiting for the Monsoon by Threes Anna

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.

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