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First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and adolescence from her earliest memories to her eventual departure for the United States at age twenty-one. It is an evocative, emotionally charged... read more

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First Sentence

I AM OF THAT GENERATION of middle-class, westernized, citified Indian kids who know the words to Do-Re-Me better than the national anthem.

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  1. Thrity N. Umrigar (Author)

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