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Recently, Shyamala Mehta’s life in LA feels stagnant: she’s undervalued at work, newly single, and constantly clashing with her marriage-obsessed mother. So when she’s offered a transfer to Mumbai, she travels halfway around the world to the now drought-stricken city her parents left behind.

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This captivating lifetime experience is about a young woman from the hometown of Harper Lee and Truman Capote in rural Alabama. She hates conflict even though she is habitually involved in it. Her frantic fight with debt tops the list. Debt is wildly chasing her like a cheetah running after a deer. Her peculiar solutions threaten her sanity and self-respect. Suffering one setback after another keeps her emotionally exhausted. She does not quit because this basic truth keeps her motivated. The alternative of returning to her hometown is demoralizing. She does not belong there.