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Moving Family Saga Details India and Pakistan’s Partition and the Perilous Path to Independence

Melody Razak has written Moth (HarperCollins), a truly exceptional debut novel, chronicling the harrowing experiences of a Brahmin family caught up in the tumultuous, perilous time period when India achieved independence from the dominant colonial rule of the British Raj. The arbitrary and haphazard lines delineating The Partition were drawn;…

Linda HitchcockOctober 3, 2023

Nonfiction

A Family’s Journey to Enlightenment in India and Nepal

What a stark revelation for Dena Moes, some 10,000 feet high in view of the Annapurna peaks in Nepal during her family's eight-month, life-altering trip to India, chronicled in her charming debut, The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal (She Writes Press). To fully understand…

Meagan FoyApril 2, 2019

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Immerse Yourself in India’s Colorful Contradictions With Romantic Thriller “Mrs. Varman”

India is a country of juxtapositions: abject poverty neighboring the well-to-do, garbage spoiling on city streets and fragrant foods on restaurant tables, harsh sunlight burning the air outside dusky rooms with thick embroidered curtains. Sanjeeta Behera brings all this to her readers in Mrs. Varman, offering a complicated backdrop to…

Sherri DaleyMay 19, 2022

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Indian American Journalist Investigates Violence Enacted in the Name of “Honor”

“A woman can live in one of two houses — fear or love. It is impossible to live in both at the same time.” I loved Honor (Algonquin Books), an emotional, thought-provoking story, and the incredible writing of the author, Thrity Umrigar. Smita Agarwal, an Indian American reporter from Brooklyn cuts…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 5, 2022

Book Club Network

“The Henna Artist” Paints the Challenges Women Faced in Post-Colonial India

"This vivid story is rich and complex!" —Reese Witherspoon Set in post-colonial India, The Henna Artist (MIRA), Alka Joshi’s debut novel, exposes a society hobbled by a rigid caste system, misogyny, superstition and age-old traditions. The smell of sandalwood, cooking fires, and tropical flowers wafts through it all, but…

Sherri DaleyMay 20, 2020

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Spiritual Memoir Shares One Man’s Journey Along the Path to Enlightenment as a Buddhist

“Life is like a great big role-playing game,” writes Marc Preston Moss, “The way to win isn’t to have the most stuff or the highest status—it’s how to find the way out of the game entirely.” That way out is the path that leads to enlightenment and the cessation of…

Cynthia ConradApril 12, 2022

Fiction

The Race to Find the Perfect Husband

In Zara Raheem’s fresh debut novel, The Marriage Clock (William Morrow), a Muslim-American woman races to find the man of her dreams as her traditional Indian parents threaten to arrange the marriage for her. The truth? Leila Abid would like to have someone else’s life. As a child, she envisioned…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJuly 23, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “A Distant Heart” Draws All to India

I love reading novels that sweep me away to faraway places; far from the mundanity of my daily routines, worries, and struggles. A Distant Heart (Kensington) by Sonali Dev does just that. From page one, suddenly I was in Mumbai, India with its gritty slums, beautiful mansions, rickshaw drivers, and…

Heather WebbNovember 11, 2018

Fiction

Progress and Tradition Go Head-to-Head in Indian Political Thriller, “A Nest for Lalita”

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/booktrib_KenLanger_ANestForLalita.jpg “Langer’s prose is lucid and wonderfully detailed … is extremely successful at bringing the time and place to vivid life.” — Kirkus Reviews —∞— The streets of Sompur, India, were not for the faint of heart. Narrow roads congested by cars, trucks, rickshaws and livestock made navigation tricky under…

Chelsea CicconeOctober 20, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

The Elegance and Beauty of a Struggling Family

In her heartfelt and elegantly written debut of a beautiful, struggling family, it's clear that Fatima Farheen Mirza is a gifted writer. She is more than able to make you feel every character's emotions, while offering compassion for different views, gradually revealing different aspects of each story to create a multilayered…

Jennifer BlankfeinJune 19, 2018

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5 Intriguing and Powerful Historical Fiction Novels of Women Pushing Back

It’s difficult for anyone to avoid the world’s expectations. We’re indoctrinated with so many of them and from such an early age, like that pallette of pink and blue with which society paints itself. So, what happens when we decide we’d like to circumvent these expectations? Try painting with a…

BookTribJune 7, 2021

A Family’s Journey to Enlightenment in India and Nepal

Immerse Yourself in India’s Colorful Contradictions With Romantic Thriller “Mrs. Varman”

Indian American Journalist Investigates Violence Enacted in the Name of “Honor”

“The Henna Artist” Paints the Challenges Women Faced in Post-Colonial India

Spiritual Memoir Shares One Man’s Journey Along the Path to Enlightenment as a Buddhist

The Race to Find the Perfect Husband

Tall Poppy Review: “A Distant Heart” Draws All to India

Progress and Tradition Go Head-to-Head in Indian Political Thriller, “A Nest for Lalita”

The Elegance and Beauty of a Struggling Family

5 Intriguing and Powerful Historical Fiction Novels of Women Pushing Back

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