![]() ![]() ![]() Even the Bollywood echoes aren’t enough to get the story off the hook for its continued implausibility it’s an exhausting venture, as is following the jerky, jumpy prose plaguing this novel. ![]() ![]() Soon Abby finds herself on the set of a Bollywood film, staying in a mansion, and getting to know both her father and paternal grandmother, all while having to disguise their true relationship to the press. While he never knew of Abby’s existence (his own father had intercepted the letter her mother sent informing him of her pregnancy), he is eager to make up for lost time, and invites her to India. Together, Abby and her mother track down her father and find that he’s now a huge Bollywood star. She is slightly hurt at her father’s rejection, however, and when a previously undetected coconut allergy nearly kills her, she begins to wonder what other genetic conditions she may have inherited. from India to study, and she’s been happy enough without him, living with her mom in Houston and spending plenty of time with her maternal grandparents. She knows her mother knew him in college, when he came to the U.S. Twelve-year old Abby Spencer is curious about the father she never met. ![]()
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