num_pages: 416
description: A sweeping emotional journey of two childhood friendsone struggling to survive the human slave trade and the other on a mission to save hertwo girls whose lives converge only to change one fateful night in 1993.India 1986: Mukta a ten-year-old girl from the lower caste Yellamma cult of temple prostitutes has come of age to fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute. In an attempt to escape this legacy that binds her Mukta is transported to a foster family in Bombay. There she discovers a friend in the high spirited eight-year-old Tara the tomboyish daughter of the family who helps her recover from the wounds of her past. Tara introduces Mukta to a different worldice cream and sweets poems and stories and a friendship the likes of which she has never experienced before. As time goes by their bond grows to be as strong as that between sisters. In 1993 Mukta is kidnapped from Taras room. Eleven years later Tara who blames herself for what happened embarks on an emotional journey to search for the kidnapped Mukta only to uncover long buried secrets in her own family.Moving from a remote village in India to the bustling metropolis of Bombay to Los Angeles and back again amidst the brutal world of human trafficking this is a heartbreaking and beautiful portrait of an unlikely friendshipa story of love betrayal and redemptionwhich ultimately withstands the true test of time.
language: English
title: The Color of Our Sky
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks