Missy

Madras, India: The orphans of St Ursula’s convent are destined to be nuns or servants but seventeen-year-old Savi dreams of escape. Responsible and good with languages, she’s taken on as governess for the wealthy Nandiyar family. But the horrific events of a single night force Savi and her love, Ananda, into a dangerous journey, re-emerging in America under new identities, India forever in their rearview. But the past is never far away. Forty years later, Savi, now known as Missy, is living the American Dream in Chicago; pillar of the South Asian community, and mother to two brilliant young women, Mansi and Shilpa. Until Varun, a charming doctor, enters their lives, setting off a chain of events that puts Missy’s world in jeopardy with the revelation that you can never truly outrun your past secrets

About the author

Raghav Rao

Summary

Chicagoan Missy has left her beginnings in Madras far behind, to live the American Dream. Until a young man crashes into her family’s life, forcing Missy to confront her past secrets.

Product details

• Authors: Raghav Rao
• Publisher: Canelo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2025
• EAN: 9781804369364
• ISBN: 978-1-80436-936-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 24 mm x 200 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Family life fiction, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural