A Room in Bombay: A Memoir Inc. When Dahee Shin was nine

When Dahee Shin was nine years old

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A Room in Bombay: A Memoir Inc. When Dahee Shin was nineA best selling novelist turns to memoir in this compelling story of a sons love, a mothers obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past. Indian American author Manil Suri grew up in a large crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai) which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three Muslim families. Their single room, at times a refuge from the religious and territorial tensions pervading the apartment, was also a prison that held them captivehis