Divya Kapoor moves to California from New York with her family to start over. She reconnects with friends from her exclusive Indian boarding school who meet weekly to eat, gossip, and play rummy. Their lives are shaken up by various personal dramas - Brilliant Alka has ambitions thwarted by her marriage and has become a strict "Tiger Mother", Priya must face truths about her failing marriage, and beautiful Mini suddenly becomes a widow. When troubles arise regarding Alka's son and Divya's frustrations with her life, their friendship is torn apart.

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DivyaKapoorarrives in California from the immigrant ghetto
of Queens with her husband and children to start over. Within days she redis-
covers her friends from her exclusive Himalayan hill town girls school. They
commit to a picking up their old pastime and meeting weekly at one another’s
homes to eat and share and gossip, and to play the popular Indian version
of rummy.
Soon life’s dramas shake them up. Brilliant Alka’s thwarted ambitions and
her dissatisfying marriage have turned her into an obsessive Tiger Mother.
Big-hearted Priya must face the truth about her collapsing marriage. Divya
herself lies awake at night struggling with her envy of the comfortable stability
her friends have already attained. And, in one unexpected moment, beautiful
Mini suddenly becomes a widow.
When the worst befalls Alka’s son and Divya’s frustrations spill over into
the rummy game, their once dependable world is torn apart. Will Alka’s son
make it? Will Alka and Divya repair their friendship? Will Priya’s fledgling
business and her blossoming relationship with a Hispanic hunk survive? Will
Mini marry a WASP? Will the four friends ever play rummy together again?
Anoop Ahuja Judge is an attorney whose first book Law;
What It’s All About and How to Get In was published by Twenty-Twenty
Media in New Delhi, India as part of a series of Dummies-style books
about different careers open to college grads.
She has lived in the San Francisco-Bay Area for the past 23 years.
She is married with two nearly grown and fully admirable children.
Cover Design: Peri Poloni-Gabriel, Knockout Design, www.knockoutbooks.com
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“A touching novel about four friends whose lives take them from an exclusive
Indian boarding school to the unfamiliar landscape of Bay Area, California.
This is an honest and compelling portrait of how long-lasting friendships
evolve over the years. It’s also a story about bad choices, good choices,
second chances and forgiveness. A great choice for book clubs! ”
— Susan J. Breen, Author of The Fiction Class