Indian Summer

In response to a desperate plea from her mother, New York resident Namrata Jadav returns to India to look for her brother, Sandeep, who has been wrongly implicated in a brutal murder and appears to have gone missing. Supported by a fiery activist and an ambitious journalist, she embarks on a dangerous mission that leads her to Mumbai. There, she finds her brother a recovering alcoholic haunted by the past, too afraid to return to his hometown, where he could face imprisonment or even be killed. Will Namrata convince Sandeep to come home to reclaim his life, restore their family's honour, and help nail those responsible for the horrific crime - or will she be stopped by forces out to destroy her? Indian Summer is a novel for our times, a tale about a small-town family in Maharashtra trying to hold itself together amidst the vagaries of fate and circumstance. While the story revolves around a gruesome murder and its investigation, its plot serves as a framework for an examination of such societal issues as police brutality, the plight of rural women, hidebound patriarchal attitudes, and the perennial dowry problem. A tale of faith, redemption, and reconciliation, Indian Summer has a lesson for us all.