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The Henna Artist

by Alka Joshi

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First published: 2020
Pages: 291

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Alka Joshi's historical fiction book "The Henna Artist" is set in 1950s India. It centers on Lakshmi, a henna artist who runs away from a forceful marriage and gains the confidence of Jaipur's high-class ladies. When her history resurfaces, her life changes.

About the author

Alka Joshi

Alka Joshi ran an advertising and marketing agency in California for close to thirty years before she turned to fiction in her fifties. Born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, she came to the United States with her family in 1967 at the age of nine, took a BA at Stanford and later an MFA at California College of the Arts.