This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

A section of this novel was written at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Copyright © 2018 by Tova Reich

Syracuse University Press

Syracuse, New York 13244-5290

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First Edition 2018

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ISBN: 978-0-8156-1106-6 (hardcover)     978-0-8156-5454-4 (e-book)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Reich, Tova, author.

Title: Mother India : a novel / Tova Reich.

Description: First edition. | Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018024320 (print) | LCCN 2018025396 (ebook) | ISBN 9780815654544 (E-book) | ISBN 9780815611066 (Hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Jews—United States—Fiction. | Jewish fiction. | Satire.

Classification: LCC PS3568.E4763 (ebook) | LCC PS3568.E4763 M68 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024320

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