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092    |fF|aDIVAKARU 
100 1  Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee,|d1956- 
245 10 One amazing thing /|cChitra Divakaruni. 
250    First Hachette Books trade edition  
264  1 New York :|bHachette Books,|c[2015] 
264  4 ©2009. 
300    227 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes conversation with author and reading group guide.
520    When an earthquake hits, nine men and women of diverse 
       ages and backgrounds are trapped in an Indian consulate. 
       Cameron, an African American Vietnam vet, takes charge, 
       striving to keep them safe. College student Uma, who 
       brought along The Canterbury Tales to read while waiting 
       for clerk Malathi and her boss Mangalam to process her 
       papers, suggests that they each tell an important story 
       from their lives. Their tales of heartbreak and revelation
       are nuanced and riveting as Divakaruni takes fresh measure
       of the transcendent power of stories and the pilgrimage 
       tradition. True, the nine, including an older couple, a 
       young Muslim man, and a Chinese Indian grandmother and her
       granddaughter, are captives of a disaster, but they are 
       also pilgrims of the spirit, seeking one amazing thing 
       affirming that life, for all its pain, is miraculous. -- 
       Booklist. 
650  0 Earthquakes|zCalifornia|vFiction. 
650  0 East Indians|zCalifornia|vFiction. 
650  0 Disaster victims|vFiction. 
650  0 Storytelling|vFiction. 
650  0 Psychological fiction. 
650  1 Storytelling|vFiction. 
650  7 Disaster victims.|2fast 
650  7 Earthquakes.|2fast 
650  7 East Indians.|2fast 
650  7 Psychological fiction.|2fast 
650  7 Storytelling.|2fast 
651  7 California. 
655  7 Psychological fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Psychological fiction.|2fast 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast