Off the shelf
Sep 09, 2020
3 minutes
COMPILED BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE
THE HENNA ARTIST
ALKA JOSHI, HARPER COLLINS, $29.99
Debut novelist Alka Joshi transports the reader to India in the 1950s as she takes her protagonist, a young Indian woman escaping an abusive marriage, on her journey of self-discovery. From henna tattooing and arranged marriage to the importance of education as a passport out of poverty and the family shame of an unwanted pregnancy, everything about life for women in newly independent India is explored in this tale of resilience and the triumph of love and loyalty over adversity. Reading
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