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Alka Joshi, a Shawnee Mission East graduate with a Stanford art history degree, embarked on a journey to India with her mother, sparking her second career as a novelist. Her breakout hit, The Henna Artist, was inspired by her mothers regrets over 1950s cultural limits. Joshis latest book, Six Days in Bombay, explores the lives of a nurse and a painter in 1937 Bombay, drawing inspiration from real-life artist Amrita Sher-Gil. The story delves into the complexities of juggling multiple identities and the price one might pay for embracing them all. Joshi will discuss her book at the Kansas City Librarys Plaza branch on May 7th.

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