PLACE CALLED HOME Paperback

Preeti Shenoy's "A Place Called Home" follows the journey of Alka, a young woman haunted by a carefully guarded past. Having grown up in the cramped servant's room of a luxurious house where her mother worked as a maid, Alka dreams of escaping her origins. She works hard to create a new life, eventually marrying a coffee grower and building a seemingly perfect existence with her family on a sprawling estate. However, when long-buried secrets from her past resurface, threatening to shatter everything she's built, Alka must confront her demons and return to the world she desperately tried to leave behind to protect her present and ultimately find her true self.