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For Young Readers
Why Is My Skin Brown?
Middle-Grade Novel · 2026
Sarayu is twelve, American-born, and about to spend four months with cousins in Bengaluru, which has its own ideas about her skin.
Why Is My Hair Curly?
Children’s Chapter Book · 2020
Avantika brushes and brushes, but there’s no keeping her curly hair down. How she wished her hair was straight and smooth like Amma’s and Appa’s.
For Adults
The Smudged Hyphen
Essay Collection · 2026
Some families are made by biology. Some by paperwork. Some by the daily accumulation of ordinary love.
A Star Keeps Its Distance
Novel · 2026
Amaya Stein writes for Mosaic, her aunt’s online magazine for third culture kids. She has ninety-nine YouTube subscribers, a novel going nowhere, and a breakup she has filed under handled. Then her aunt assigns her to cover K-pop.
Hindsight
Novel · 2024
She had gone back for a book. The last day of college, her friends already ahead, a copy of Roots left under a tree. She turned back alone into the evening. She did not come back the same.