The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast
Education:Language Learning
Namrata Patel has been writing for 20 years, but it wasn’t until the pandemic that she had more time to work on it. She had always been interested in dual culture and challenges of the diaspora, specifically Indians who had moved to the United States. The isolation of COVID really brought home how lonely life can be if you don’t feel like you fit anywhere. Her debut novel The Candid Life of Meena Dave follows a photojournalist who inherits an apartment from a stranger. The apartment in Back Bay Boston surrounds her with a close-knit network of other Indian-Americans. Meena comes to learn more about herself and her culture, as well as understands the gift of found family and friendship through this experience.
The book comes out June 1 but those book lovers who have Amazon Prime can download her book for free during the month of May with their First Reads program. If you subscribe to Amazon Prime, you are able to download 1 free book a month from their First Reads selections which are editor favorites hitting bookshelves the following month. Just search First Reads in the search bar.
You can find Namrata Patel on instagram at @namratapatelauthor, on Twitter at Nampatel or on her author website, nampatel.com.
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Books Mentioned In This Episode:
1- A Room With a View by E. M. Forester
2- Six Days in Rome by Franscesca Giacco
3- My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
4- The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel
5- Books by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Ep. 38 When Reading Goes To The Dogs with Emily McKeehan 3-18-20
Ep. 36 Books Help the Medicine Go Down with Kimmery Martin 3-11-20
Ep. 36 The Literary Luck of the Irish with Niamh Lutes
Ep. 35 Revision and Riding the Tiger with Katy Yocom 2-26-20
Ep. 34 A Literary Gang of Merry Millennials with Hannah Zimmerman and Amelia Reesor 2-19-20
Ep. 33 What WAS That? Let's Do It Again with Robert Eric Shoemaker 2-12-20
Ep. 32 What Will We Read Next with Anne Bogel 2-5-20
Ep. 31 Cooking the Books with Laura Lucchese 1-29-20
E. 30 Not All Superheroes Wear Capes with William Sutton 1-22-20
REBROADCAST Ep. 22- (Fun) Home is Where the Heart Is with Michael Drury 10-30-19
REBROADCAST Ep. 11 - Slam! This is for the Girls with Rheonna Nicole 8-14-19
REBROADCAST Ep. 13 - Reading, Riding, and Other Horseplay with Amanda Ciejko
Ep. 29 Big Book Love in Little Libraries with Mary Sullivan and Joan Dubay 12-18-19
Ep. 28 A Book Lover's Double Feature with Kara Evans 12-11-19
Ep. 27 A "Meat" and Greet with the Past with Mick Sullivan 12-4-19~0
Ep. 26 Picking The Perfect Published Present with Bri Esposito 11-17-19
Ep. 25 How The Library Keeps Us LITerate with mk Eagle and Hannah Elliott 11-20-19
Ep. 24 Knocking on Fantasy's Door with Alix Harrow 11-13-19
Ep. 23 An Annual Cure for Writer's Block with Amy Miller 11-6-19
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