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After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she was born, she returns to India, where she’ll have to face her estranged parents...and the complicated past they left behind.

For Iris, childhood memories are of long hot summers spent playing with her cousin Rosmarie in her grandmother's garden, a place where redcurrants turned to pale tears on the branches of trees and beautiful Aunt Inga shook sparks from the tips of her fingers. But now her grandmother is dead and, along with inheriting the property, Iris finds that she also inherits her family's darkest secrets. Reluctant to keep it, but reluctant to sell, Iris spends one more summer at the house.

A woman returns to her small southern hometown in the wake of her mother’s sudden death—only to find the past upended by stunning family secrets—in this intimate debut novel, written with deep compassion and sharp wit. “A deeply moving work of Southern fiction that will appeal to fans...

¿Qué no consigue el chocolate? En un invierno muy frío, entre la rutina y los cambios, la esperanza y el desencanto, el chocolate es refugio y alivio; a veces dulce, otras amargo, pero siempre intenso, cálido y oscuro. Adela, una reputada psicóloga, trata de sobrevivir al peso del recuerdo de su madre y sus propias obsesiones. Raquel, soltera y desempleada, busca encauzar el rumbo de su vida, pero ha perdido la dirección. Helia regresa a casa después de pasar una temporada en Londres con su novio.