2021: #1 – The Widows of Malabar Hill (Sujata Massey)

The years that India was under British rule has long been an interesting time period to me, and this book is set right smack in the middle of it. Perveen Mistry is someone unusual — a female lawyer in early 1920s Bombay. She’s not considered a full lawyer because she cannot appear in court, but she’s able to do a lot of contract work and

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2020: #42 – Daughter of Moloka’i (Alan Brennert)

Daughter of Moloka’i is the follow-up to Brennert’s fantastic Moloka’i, which was about the leper colony on the island of Moloka’i in Hawaii. Two of the isolated patients on that island, Rachel and Kenji, give birth to a baby named Ruth, who must almost immediately be taken away so she doesn’t contract leprosy from her parents. When this story opens, Ruth is being delivered to the Kapi’olani

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