Book Details:
Book Title: The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani
Category: Adult Fiction, 399 pages
Genre: Literary
Publisher: Lake Union
Release date: September 2018
Tour dates: June 3 to July 12, 2019
Content Rating: PG-13 (There are some non-explicit sex scenes)
Book Description:
An Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller!
From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.
Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi—her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant—who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation.
Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible.
Book Review:
This is one of those books that should be a bigger deal. How have I not seen this book on everyone’s TBR? How has Oprah or Reese Witherspoon not chosen this book for their book clubs? I shouldn’t be able to go on bookstagram or twitter without seeing this title.
To say I was transported by this book is a complete understatement. I was enthralled and moved by every sentence. At times, I felt as though I was absorbed into the book and surrounded by the setting. The descriptions of India, its food, its traditions, its sites, were all laid out in such beautiful detail that I was a little taken aback every time that I stopped reading. I would look up from the page and find myself not in current or British occupied India, but in my own home (or car, or park, or gym). And that only explains how I felt about the setting, and not the story itself.
The story is phenomenal, just remarkable. Even when I knew what was going to happen, I couldn’t look away from the tragic prose. I needed to know for certain what happened with Jaya and Patrick. I lived on their hopes and cried in their pain, knowing, personally, the depths of the sorrow they were unable to share with each other. Jaya’s grandmother’s journey becomes the road to redemption for Jaya, instilling her with unknown courage and strength. The past becomes the foundation for this story, but Jaya’s experiences are the lifeblood, the beating heart that propels the reader through each chapter.
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And that cover. Seriously, I was captivated by the cover before I knew anything about the book. I wasn’t sure if the pages inside could live up to the promise of the front, but it did. Oh my did it ever. This book is going to stay with me like few others have ever. The kind of book that open your eyes and deposits parts of itself in your soul.
It will be hard for me to think of India without thinking of Amisha and Jaya’s journeys. Sejal Badani, with one book, has become one of my favorite authors.
*Special thanks to Sejal Badani, iRead Book Tours, and Lake Union Publishing for a copy of Storyteller’s Secret in exchange for an honest review.
Meet the Author:
A former attorney, Sejal Badani left the law to pursue writing full time.
She is a USA Today, Washington Post, & Amazon Charts bestselling author, Goodreads Fiction Award Finalist and ABC/DISNEY Writing Fellowship Finalist.
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It's awesome that you loved the book so much. It really showed in your review and I had a lot of fun reading your post 😊