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About the Book: INDIAN COUNTRY (Crown; August 5, 2025), re-affirms Rao’s remarkable storytelling talents. Unlikely newlyweds Janavi and Sagar move from Varanasi, India to rural Montana. Sagar is a hydraulic engineer taking a job on a dam removal project, excited for a new adventure far from the burdens of family and the guilt he feels over a childhood accident. Janavi is devastated to leave the work she is passionate about, helping urban street children who are often lost to an underworld of poverty and trafficking. She arrives in Montana adrift and angry with her sister back home, whose betrayal led her to this arranged marriage and this strange place.About the Author: Shobha Rao moved to the United States from India at the age of seven. She is the author of the short story collection, An Unrestored Woman, and the novel, Girls Burn Brighter. Rao is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction and was a Grace Paley Teaching Fellow at The New School. Her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories. Girls Burn Brighter was long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award and the Goodreads Choice Awards. She lives in San Francisco.
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