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The setting is the basement of an Indian Consulate. Toward the end of the day there were nine left in the office: a teenager, an upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating, a young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11, a graduate student haunted by a question about love, an African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption, a Chinese grandmother with a secret past, and two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair. Each character has his or her reason for requiring a visa to travel to India. They are all lost in their own stories and own thoughts, when an earthquake strikes and they are trapped. Their focus quickly changes from their own personal lives to their need to survive by working as a group. As food runs out, as water rises, as ceilings collapse and as hopes of survival wane, our teenager, Uma, suggests they each tell a personal tale about their lives, "one amazing thing" that they never told anyone before. Some of the stories may seem mundane, but they are very real, very personal and very important to the people who lived them. The story telling is Divakaruni at her best.
Sina H.
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