The storyteller's secret
Subtitle: a novel
By: Sejal Badani
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781503949089; 9781542048279
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: East Indian Americans; Family secrets; Man-woman relationships; Grandmothers; Fiction; Separation (Psychology); Miscarriage; Women journalists; History
Other titles: Story teller's secret
Description: Nothing prepares Jaya, A New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi -- her grandmother's former servant and trusted confidant -- who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya's pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Through her courageous grandmother's arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible. -- from book jacket