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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2016 by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956- author.
Title: Before we visit the goddess : a novel / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041714
Subjects: LCSH: Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | East Indians—United States—Fiction. | Families—United States—Fiction. | Families—India—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Contemporary Women.
Classification: LCC PS3554.I86 B44 2016 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041714
ISBN 978-1-4767-9200-2
ISBN 978-1-4767-9202-6 (ebook)
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