Available for the first time outside of India at www.uread.com and, now, www.amazon.com
“Terin Miller’s first novel is an adventure as rich as the subcontinent itself,
and as full of wonder.”
~ Christian Bauman
Author of “VOODOO LOUNGE” and “THE ICE BENEATH YOU”
“I was very impressed by this novel. It was a tragedy,
and the baseness of some of its characters was disturbing,
but the writing was superb. I’m trying to suppress
my enthusiasm, but I can’t help but compare Mr. Miller’s
writing to that of Ernest Hemingway ...”
~ Erika Robuck
Author of “RECEIVE ME FALLING,” "HEMINGWAY'S GIRL," and "CALL ME ZELDA"
Kashi is a tale of clashes of cultures, relationship experiments and religious and moral differences in the holiest of Hindu cities, just at the time India’s second generation of independence comes to adulthood in the form of Sumita “Meetha” Sharma.
Meetha Sharma, educated, attractive, worldly, the daughter of a wealthy import-export businessman in the nascent new Indian middle-class, desires to be like her American and other expatriate friends. She chafes at “old world” ideas of behavior and conformity and longs to be seen as an equal in society. But her desires have consequences she doesn’t fully realize, especially for the traditional Hindu musician to whom she was promised when she was 13.
A story of a generation of Indians unlike any that has come before them—born in a free and independent country, a country only granted its freedom after much effort and sacrifice by their forebears, a country only granted the opportunity to rise in the world as its former colonial status fades into history.