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filled with lace she had once planned to turn into curtains.
She kept the bonuses from her job in a separate bank account in her name.
“No thanks,” Shoba and Shukumar called out together. It surprised Shukumar that his words matched hers.
“You didn’t have to tell me why you did it,” she said, moving closer to him.
was the closest he’d come to infidelity.
He had held him until a nurse knocked and took him away, and he promised himself that day that he would never tell Shoba, because he still loved her then, and it was the one thing in her life that she had wanted to be a surprise.
They wept together, for the things they now knew.
I nodded, unaware of the situation.
In its own way this correspondence would fulfill his dream, of serving as an interpreter between nations.
She reached into her straw bag in search of something, then pulled out a packet of puffed rice. “Want some?”
While Dev was at the airport, Miranda went to Filene’s Basement to buy herself things she thought a mistress should have.
“It means loving someone you don’t know.”
You already taste the way things must be.”
It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see.
FOR THE GREATER NUMBER of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.
To raise a child and teach him sweet from sour, good from bad?”
For days afterward, as we walked our children to school, picked up our cleaning, stood in lines at the ration shop, we whispered.
But she was not our responsibility, and in our private moments we were thankful for it.
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
