A Pack of Lies

A Pack of Lies
ISBN-10
9380032838
ISBN-13
9789380032832
Series
A Pack of Lies
Category
Indic fiction (English)
Pages
289
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Urmilla Deshpande
Author
Urmilla Deshpande

Description

Ginny slips through the cracks of her parents divorce and grows up like a weed, undernourished in motherly love and overnourished in all the wrong ways. Ginny is potent, addictive, and as delicious and nutritious as nicotine. Sometimes tragic, sometimes funny but always sexy, she improvises her way through her days with unintended honesty and compulsive joy, and very little morality of the conventional kind. This Pack of Lies is Ginny's ruthless look at her unlikely life in Bombay in the eighties. Ignoring the way things should be, she makes us question them. It is not Ginny who lies, but the world around her that refuses her candor, denies her truths, and turns her away as the girl who cries wolf.

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