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082			_a813.6 _bSHO
100			_aShobhan Bantwal
245		4	_aThe forbidden daughter / _cShobhan Bantwal.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bFingerprint!, _c2015.
300			_a344 p. ; _c18 cm.
520			_aIt's a girl! For most young couples, news of their unborn child's gender brings joyful anticipation. Not so for Isha Tilak and her husband, Nikhil. They already have a beloved daughter, but Nikhil's parents, hard-wired to favor male children above all, coldly reject little Priya at every turn. Vain and selfish, they see female grandchildren as burdens�as curses instead of blessings�and readily ignore the one growing in Isha's belly. Even the obstetrician agrees, going so far as to suggest the unthinkable, throwing Nikhil into a rage�and changing Isha's life forever . . . When Nikhil is discovered brutally murdered, Isha is convinced it had something to do with his reaction to the doctor's hideous "solution" to their problem. Alone, grief-stricken, and relentlessly oppressed by in-laws who believe her baby is a bad omen, Isha sets out on her own. Born into a privileged class, Isha doesn't know the first thing about fending for herself, but to protect her precious daughters, she will learn. Isha clings to the hope given to her by a strange old mystic: that her baby will arrive on the auspicious night of Kojagari Purnima, the full harvest moon, and be a gift from Lakshmi, the goddess of well-being. Isha and her girls will need all the blessings they can get, for the greatest danger of all lies ahead . . .
650			_aIndian Fiction.
650			_aContemporary fiction.
650			_aEnglish Literature.
942			_cENG
999			_c161083 _d161083