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First published in India by Aleph Book Company 2012
First published in Great Britain by Viking 2014
Published in Penguin Books (USA) 2014
Copyright © 2012 by Jerry Pinto
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Pinto, Jerry.
Em and the Big Hoom : a novel / Jerry Pinto.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-101-63785-2 (eBook)
1. Women--Fiction. 2. Manic-depressive illness—Fiction. 3. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PR9499.4.P56E43 2014
823'.92—dc23 2014005738
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.