Split by Arushi Joshi

by Arushi Sood Joshi

www.splitthenovel.com

isbn:9781605943367

270 pages

Paperback

5.5" x 8.5"

Fiction

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About the Book:

Like any “good Indian girl,” Aradhana is expected to get an education and settle down with a “good Indian boy.” Like any young girl though, Aradhana has her own lofty plans. She follows a forbidden love to a land she has only known through movies and sitcoms, the United States.

Her life in the country is surreal from the first day she steps off the plane. Fate deals her a challenging hand. A smitten Irish Catholic boy, rejection, and mediocrity are just some of the issues that confront her as she pursues her education. When she hits rock bottom, she finds that she’s not only fallen from grace, but she’s lost her own sense of self worth along the way.

Back home in India, both Aradhana’s mother, Gauri, and older sister, Aasma, struggle with proper Indian marriages that are not all they seem. Driven by destiny, Aasma and Gauri find themselves in America visiting Aradhana as she embarks on a new life journey. Like Aradhana, they do not anticipate how events that transpire in this foreign land will change their lives forever. Split between the decisions they have to make and the two different cultures, they all find courage and strength within themselves and each other.

Split explores the schism between traditional and modern, ethnicity and assimilation, and duty and passion through the eyes of a young woman transitioning from challenging paradoxes in her culture to a global citizen at the dawn of the 21st century.

About the Author:

Arushi was born in Calcutta in July 1977. She moved to the Southern Indian city of Hyderabad when she was eight. Born into a North Indian Punjabi family but growing up in South India, she witnessed early in life the subtle and not so subtle differences in cultures.

Arushi completed her undergraduate degree in India, and came to the United States to pursue an MBA at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. Once again, she found herself in a cultural split, this time between the Indian and American cultures. Like many immigrants, she had her fair share of challenges adjusting to a new environment. She was also fortunate, like many immigrants, to find success and happiness in a country that treated her fairly. Arushi pursued a career in business consulting before taking on the hardest and most gratifying role of all, “Mom.” She is also launching a line of all-natural baby personal care products called Nature Certified. She has traveled widely in her professional life and loves meeting people from different cultures. In her free time she enjoys writing, reading, and fusion cooking. Split is her first novel. She lives with her daughter and husband in Walnut Creek, California.