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Tin House

9781953534637

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The Dream Builders

The Dream Builders is an elegant, intimate story about people adrift in a chaotic city, an unpredictable economy and a rapidly changing world. These characters long for home, belonging, stability and comfort, struggling to root themselves even as the ground shifts beneath them.

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Review of ‘The Dream Builders’

In her kaleidoscopic debut novel, Oindrila Mukherjee brings the fictional Indian city of Hrishipur to vivid life. Located in northern India, Hrishipur is a young city, home to migrants looking for work, elite professionals dazzled by the glittering nightlife and ultrawealthy business owners searching for the next big deal. With luxury malls,…

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