Evening is the Whole Day

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Fourth Estate, 2008 - Domestic fiction - 340 pages
Set in Malaysia, this novel introduces us to a prosperous Indian immigrant family, as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets. When the family's servant girl, Chellam, is dismissed from the big house for unnamed crimes, it is only the latest in a series of losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life.

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Contents

The Ignominious Departure of Chellamservant
1
Big House Beginnings
17
The Necessary Sacrifice of the Burdensome Relic
29
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Preeta Samarasan was born and raised in Malaysia and moved to the United States for her high school education. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where an early version of this novel won the Hopwood Novel Award. She recently won the Asian American Writer's Workshop short-story award. She lives in France.

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