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Priya Hajela is a fiction writer who lives in Pune, Goa, and New York with an entrepreneur husband and two tiny but ferocious dogs. Her son is an investigative journalist and her daughter is in college in the US, still wondering what she’s going to do. Priya graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont in 2017 after a twenty-two year career in the corporate world and an MBA from Vanderbilt University (Owen School) in 1992.

Her corporate career began in the US where she worked for several telecommunications majors. She continued on the Telecommunications track in India from 2004 to 2015, when she decided to go back to school and take up writing.

Priya is the author of Ladies’ Tailor, a novel published by Harper C ...more

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	LADIES' TAILOR 4.04 avg rating — 286 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LADIES' TAILOR 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our First Coffee by Nitin Raj Singh (Goodreads Author), Afzal Sajjad Zafir, Priya Hajela (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi: Publics and Counterpublics

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The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

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