The Faded Frontier

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Chapter One Lakshmi Iyer remembered the smell before she remembered the sound, a thick, sulfurous rot that coated the back of her throat and settled in the pores of her skin, a scent that would follow her into the cleanest rooms of the chawl for weeks after. She stood now in the shadow of the four-story chawl, the concrete slick with the melting snow that had turned the coal cellars into black...

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