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Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Sister of My Heart

A Novel

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Narrator Julia Whelan
Length 11 hours 49 minutes
Language English
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Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction.
Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family.
Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences,
since the day on which the two girls were born, the same day their
fathers died—mysteriously and violently—Sudha and Anju have been
sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot
comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates as well
as their hearts were merged.

But, when Sudha learns a dark
family secret, that connection is shattered. For the first time in their
lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust. Urged
into arranged marriages, Sudha and Anju's lives take opposite turns.
Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town
household. Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live
her own life of secrets. When tragedy strikes each of them, however,
they discover that despite distance and marriage, they have only each
other to turn to.

Set in the two worlds of San Francisco and
India, this exceptionally moving novel tells a story at once familiar
and exotic, seducing listeners from the first page with the lush prose we
have come to expect from Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart is a novel destined to become as widely beloved as it is acclaimed.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the bestselling author of the novel The Mistress of Spices; the story collections The Unknown Errors of Our Lives and Arranged Marriage, which received several awards, including the American Book Award; and four collections of prize-winning poetry. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Ms., Good Housekeeping, The Best American Short stories 1999, the New York Times, and other publications. Born in India, she lives near Houston.

Julia Whelan, a former child actress best known for her award-winning work on ABC's Once and Again, began narrating and directing audiobooks after graduating from college with a degree in English and creative writing. She has garnered many positive reviews, won multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, and was named one of AudioFile magazine's Best Voices of 2010. Two of Julia's audiobooks were shortlisted for the American Library Association's notable recordings of 2010. Her "flawless" narration of Jandy Nelson's The Sky Is Everywhere earned a place in the first round of 2011 Grammy nominations for Best Spoken Word Album. In addition to her work in young adult fiction, her audiobook credits include memoir (Jenny McCarthy's Love, Lust, and Faking It), women's fiction, supernatural thrillers, and nonfiction.

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Reviews

"An inspired and imaginative raconteur, Divakaruni is sure to engender comparisons with Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things), but Divakaruni's novel stands in its own right as a compelling read." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review Expand reviews
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