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The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar – 304 pages ARC from Algonquin Publishing and Netgalley for an honest reviewBook Blurb: When Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his cold and inscrutable mother with him and has kept his...
Honor by Thrity Umrigar – 336 pages ARC from Algonquin Books and Netgalley for a honest review Book Blurb: Honor by Thrity Umrigar Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country...
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi – 384 pages ARC provided by Mira Books for an honest review Book Blurb: It’s the spring of 1969, and Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. Malik has finished his private school...
Seven by Farzana Doctor – 416 pages ARC from Dundurn for an honest review Book Blurb: When Sharifa accompanies her husband on a marriage-saving trip to India, she thinks that she's going to research her great-great-grandfather, a wealthy business leader and...
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi - 368 pages ARC from MIRA for a an honest reviewBook Blurb: Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna...
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao – AudioBook Blurb: When Poornima first meets Savitha, she feels something she thought she lost for good when her mother died: hope. Poornima's father hires Savitha to work one of their sari looms, and the two girls are quickly drawn...
The Girl in the Painting by Renita D’Silva – 498 pages Book Blurb: Emma’s beloved grandmother, Margaret, is dying, and she has one last wish before she says goodbye. When she gives Emma a mysterious painting and the deeds to a house in India, Emma is shocked....
Some of my Historical Fiction Faves - India and Asia City of Tranquil Light Snow Flower and The Secret Fan The Japanese Lover The Last Year of the War The Island of Sea Women White Chrysanthemum Unbound Love and Other Consolation Prizes...
The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar –Audio Book Blurb: Poor and illiterate, Bhima had faithfully worked for the Dubash family, an upper-middle-class Parsi household, for more than twenty years. Yet after courageously speaking the truth about a heinous crime...
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal –audio Book Blurb: Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional...