The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani6/11/2023 ![]() Feeling adrift and with very little tying her down, she decides to follow a lead to learn more about her family’s past, which she knows almost nothing about. She’s going through an extraordinarily painful time in her life, experiencing a third miscarriage, and shortly after, the breakdown of her marriage. ![]() I’m always intrigued by a good historical fiction, especially one that takes me to places and times in which I’m not familiar, and this one did exactly that. This book quickly pulled me in, and I couldn’t put it down. 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. 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. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. ![]() Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. A family secret reveals a tragic, beautiful love. ![]()
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