Author Monica Pradhan.

Continuing the theme of food and mothers on Nirali this month, novelist Monica Pradhan couldn’t have chosen a better time to debut her first mainstream novel.

The Hindi-Bindi Club, written in the tradition of The Joy Luck Club and Like Water For Chocolate, focuses on the lives of three Indian immigrant mothers and their relationships with their daughters.

From her Web site:

Pradhan, whose parents immigrated from Mumbai, was born in Pittsburgh and decided to leave her career in consulting to write. Watch for her interview in the July issue of Nirali, and check out [1] www.hindi-bindi.com.