{"id":4899,"date":"2004-10-08T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-08T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:47:47","slug":"the-sari-shop-by-rupa-bajwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-sari-shop-by-rupa-bajwa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/10\/Sari-Shop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31242\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/10\/Sari-Shop.jpg\" alt=\"Sari Shop\" width=\"339\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>Oh, wow!! What a compelling debut novel: Lonely, orphaned Ramchand, cheated out of any inheritance, works in a small sari shop. His quiet existence is challenged by two extremes: the overindulged, hypocritical life of the privileged rich and the abused, shattered life of the forgotten poor. No <em>deus ex machina<\/em> happy\u00a0ending here \u2013\u00a0only a heartbreaking reality from which you cannot turn away.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-10-08-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, October 8, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4853\" title=\"Sari Shop\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/sari-shop.jpg\" alt=\"Sari Shop\" width=\"128\" height=\"179\" \/>Oh, wow!! What a compelling debut novel: Lonely, orphaned Ramchand, cheated out of any inheritance, works in a small sari shop. His quiet existence is challenged by two extremes: the overindulged, hypocritical life of the privileged rich and the abused, shattered life of the forgotten poor. No <em>deus ex machina<\/em> happy ending here \u2013 only a heartbreaking reality from which you cannot turn away.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-10-08-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, October 8, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,52,6535,17],"tags":[3598,6608,58,68,571,4747,4748],"class_list":["post-4899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-indian","category-repost","category-south-asian","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-haves-vs-have-nots","tag-personal-transformation","tag-rupa-bajwa","tag-sari-shop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-sari-shop-by-rupa-bajwa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oh, wow!! 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