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Book Title: Miss New India
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 5.3in
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Psychological, Contemporary Women, Literary, Asian American
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
