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Author Aishwariyaa Ramakanthan pulls from her multicultural life to write of family and self-discovery.

Author Aishwariyaa Ramakanthan pulls from her multicultural life to write of family and self-discovery.

PHOTOS: AISHWARIYAA RAMAKANTHAN, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE SEA

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By Aishwariyaa Ramakanthan
Fiction/Penguin Random House SEA/Paperback/233 pages/$24.20/Books Kinokuniya
3 stars

Sometimes, the price of success is loss and betrayal. Rose Lee knows this all too well, having discovered in the wake of her husband Peter’s death that he had a secret family in Malaysia.

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