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A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar
βHow do you explain the unique physiology of girlhood friendships, the telepathy formed fast and fierce between hometown strangers?β In A Prayer for Travelers Ruchika Tomar disrupts the traditional coming-of-age story by rearranging the chronological order of her narrative, so that the novel’s opening chapter is actually chapter number 31. The non-chronological chapter order takes…
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