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008			150709s2015 ii 000 1 eng
010			_a 2015358762
020			_a9789384052416 (hbk.)
025			_aI-E-2015358762
037			_bLibrary of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
040			_aBLR _beng _erda _cDLC _dIIHS
042			_alcode
082			_223 _a823.92 ROY _b014847
100	1		_aRoy, Sandip, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDon't let him know / _cSandip Roy.
264		1	_aNew Delhi : _bBloomsbury, _c2015.
300			_a246 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes, and a way of following their keepers. Amit does not know that Avinash, his dependable and devoted father, lurks on gay Internet groups at times, unable to set aside his lifelong attraction to men. Avinash has no idea that his dutiful wife had once romanced a dashing Bengali filmstar, whose memory she keeps tucked away in a diary amongst her silk saris. Growing up in Calcutta, in a house bustling with feisty grandmothers, Amit has been shielded from his parents' secrets. A successful computer engineer, he settles in San Francisco, torn between his new life and his duties towards the one he has left behind. Moving from adolescent rooftop games to adult encounters in gay bars, from hair salons in Calcutta to McDonald's drive-thrus in California, Don't Let Him Know is an unforgettable story about family, the struggle between having what we want and doing what we feel we must and the sacrifices we make for those we love. Tender, powerful, and beautifully told, Don't Let Him Know marks the arrival of a brave new voice. (Book jacket).
650		0	_aEast Indians _zUnited States _vFiction.
650		0	_aFamily secrets _vFiction.
650		0	_aGay men _vFiction.
650		0	_aFamily life _vFiction.
650		0	_aHomosexuality _vFiction.
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