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Bestselling author Alka Joshi shares her book "Six Days in Bombay." Registration is required for this free author event.
From the bestselling author of The Henna Artist comes a sweeping story of identity and self‑discovery that follows Sona from Bombay across Europe as she seeks the truth behind the mysterious death of renowned painter Mira Novak. After bonding with Mira during her hospital stay, Sona is stunned when Mira dies under suspicious circumstances and she herself becomes a suspect. Armed with a note and four paintings Mira left her, Sona embarks on a journey to Prague, Paris, Florence, and London to deliver the artwork to people from Mira’s complicated past, uncovering the artist’s tangled history of love, betrayal, and reinvention. As Sona pieces together Mira’s true story, she is also forced to confront her own—especially the long‑buried wounds left by the English father who abandoned her—ultimately discovering that understanding the world is the first step to understanding herself.
Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, and The Perfumist of Paris. Six Days in Bombay is her fourth novel. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times Bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick, an LA Times Bestseller, a Toronto Star and Globe & Mail Bestseller, an Indie Bookstores Bestseller, a Cosmopolitan Best Audiobook, and an Amazon and Goodreads favorite. It was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and has been translated into 30 languages. Alka has spoken to over 1000 libraries, book clubs, bookstores, literary festivals, podcasters, universities, and corporations about persistence, patience, and passion and her ten-year journey to overnight success. Because she started her writing career at the age of 62, Forbes selected Alka as one of 50 Women Over 50 who are shattering age and gender norms. Alka was born in India and came to the U.S. with her family at the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts.
Book sales and signing will follow the conversation. Registration is required for this free author event. Presented by the Carmel Clay Public Library Foundation.
