{"id":4167,"date":"2016-07-27T20:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2016-07-27T20:54:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:54:03","slug":"the-girl-in-the-garden-by-kamala-nair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4167","title":{"rendered":"The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4182\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1451372\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4182\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Girl-in-the-Garden-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Girl in the Garden\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Girl-in-the-Garden-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Girl-in-the-Garden.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the first book by this author.\u00a0\u00a0I read it over a weekend.\u00a0 The story begins\u00a0as a letter from Rahkee (a young Indian woman) to her fiance\u00a0as she is\u00a0leaving\u00a0him to return to her ancestral home\u00a0in India\u00a0to deal with her past.\u00a0 The bulk of the novel settles on Rakhee\u2019s summer spent in India before her 11th birthday with her mother\u2019s (Amma) mysterious family and away from her father, Aba.\u00a0<span id=\"freeText7816524676234458752\">Most of the story is told through the voice of young Rakhee, an innocent girl exposed to a brand new life in India as she discovers a secret garden that holds dark secrets\u00a0of her family&#8217;s past that will change her life forever during that summer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a quick read that was beautiful but also sad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first book by this author.\u00a0\u00a0I read it over a weekend.\u00a0 The story begins\u00a0as a letter from Rahkee (a young Indian woman) to her fiance\u00a0as she is\u00a0leaving\u00a0him to return to her ancestral home\u00a0in India\u00a0to deal with her past.\u00a0 The bulk of the novel settles on Rakhee\u2019s summer spent in India before her 11th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-joann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}