Scavenger's Daughter

In a world where caste is all-important, a scavenger's daughter is supposed to follow in her parents' footsteps. But when she earns admission to a revolutionary school where lower- and upper-caste children mix, she chooses the name Sujata-"born of good lineage"-and
determines to take control of her own fate. Sujata soon rises in the world, aided by intelligence, hard work, educators who believe in her-and a few necessary lies about her background. When she falls in love and marries a wealthy classmate; her life seems charmed . . . until revelations about her past threatens to destroy it all.