“A rising talent.” —Booklist
Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi
had it all—marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors
Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black
market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was
killed.
Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who
spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a
boozy haze. On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nic meets a woman
who makes a startling claim: she received Jen’s heart in a transplant
and has a message for him. Nic wants to discount Jess Koirala’s story as absurd, but there’s something about her reckless desperation that resonates despite his doubts.
Jess
has spent years working her way out of a nightmarish life in Calcutta
and into a respectable Bollywood dance troupe. Now she faces losing the
one thing that matters—her young son, Joy. She needs to uncover the
secrets Jen risked everything for; but the unforeseen bond that results
between her and Nic is both a lifeline and a perilous complication.
Delving
beyond the surface of modern Indian-American life, acclaimed author
Sonali Dev’s page-turning novel is both riveting and emotionally
rewarding—an extraordinary story of human connection, bravery, and
hope.
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