Keya Das's Second Act Format:Paperback In Watermelon and Red Birds

In Watermelon and Red Birds

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Holt carefully dismantles myths about Black womanhood

Keya Das's Second Act Format:Paperback In Watermelon and Red BirdsA painfully beautiful (Booklist), heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic leads one Bengali American family down a path toward understanding the importance of family, even when splintered. Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his fifties, he finds himself isolated from his traditional Bengali community after a devastating divorce from his wife, Chaitali; he hasnt spoken to his older