Twenty-two-year-old Parveen travels to a remote village in the land of her birth to join humanitarian Gideon Crane's charitable foundation. When she arrives, however, Gideon's clinic is not a light in the war-torn darkness. Bit by bit, the fabrications in Gideon's account are revealed, until the foundation on which Parveen chose to make her life-changing pilgrimage crumbles beneath her. This is a piercingly intelligent story about power, perspective, and idealism.
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