Lena Sharma is a successful San Francisco restaurateur. An
immigrant, she’s cultivated an image of conservatism and tradition in her
close-knit Indian community. But when Lena's carefully constructed world begins
to crumble, her ties to her daughter, Maya, and son, Sameer—raised in
thoroughly modern California—slip further away.
Maya, divorced once, becomes engaged to a man twelve years
her junior: Veer Kapoor, the son of Lena’s longtime friend. Immediately, Maya
feels her mother's disgrace and the judgment of an insular society she was born
into but never chose, while Lena’s cherished friendship frays. Meanwhile,
Maya's younger brother, Sameer, struggles with an addiction that reaches a
devastating and very public turning point, upending his already tenuous future.
As the mother, daughter, and son are compromised by tragedy,
secrets, and misconceptions, they each must determine what it will take to
rebuild their bonds and salvage what’s left of their family.
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Print length: 335 pages
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About the Author
Born and raised in New Delhi, Anoop is the author of four
novels, The Rummy Club which won the
2015 Beverly Hills Book Award, The Awakening of Meena Rawat,
an excerpt of which was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize, No Ordinary
Thursday, and Mercy and Grace.
Her essays and short stories have appeared in Green Hills
Literary Lantern, Rigorous Journal, Lumiere Review, DoubleBack Review, and the
Ornament anthology, among others.
Anoop calls herself a
“recovering litigator”—she worked in state and federal courts for many years
before she replaced legal briefs with fictional tales. She holds an MFA from
St. Mary’s College of California and was the recipient of the 2021 Advisory
Board Award and the 2023 Alumni Scholarship.
She lives in Pleasanton, California, with her husband, and
is the mother of two admirable young adults.
You can follow the author at:
Website: https://anoopjudge.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/judgeanoop/?hl=en
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anoop-ahuja-judge-94396743/
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