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1. What is the main thing that sustains Lakshmi while she is at the brothel?2. Happiness House is a deeply ironic title for the brothel. Were there other such ironies in the novel?3. What is the most disturbing part of this story for you? What facts crawled under your skin and continue to haunt you?
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