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I’d like to introduce my book, UNDIVIDED to you.
During Covid, when travel and airports were shut down, I found myself away from my aged (and very worried) parents living in India. Unable to help them in person, I would do lengthy calls to keep them occupied and distracted from the news. From jokes to short stories, I churned those creative juices. The pre-text for Undivided germinated from those calls.
Eventually, at my mother’s suggestion I picked one of those stories and wrote this book. I was further encouraged when Heather Sangster (Margaret Atwood's editor) agreed to collaborate with me. And as Undivided took shape, this labor of love eventually reached a point where I can now share it with you.
Couched in an alternative historical 1940s and 1950s India, the novel unfurls a fascinating period steeped in communal strife and the struggle for freedom from an authoritarian regime. The framework sounds ominous but Undivided is primarily a story of love, as this powerful human experience jostles for relevance among characters steeped in rejection and pain.
I hope you find the premise interesting enough to read the book. Thank you.
Warm regards,
Sid
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