Jul 15
The Blue Notebook , by James A. Levine is Highly Recommended . Batuk is a fifteen-year-old girl living in a brothel on Common Street in Mumbai , India. The bright points in her life are her best friend, Puneet , a male prostitute living a few “nests” down from her in the same brothel, and a notebook which she keeps hidden away in a slit in her thin mattress. Her vivid imagination and knack for storytelling lead her to paint a world of cheerful descriptions of the ragged and decrepit
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