Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge

I listen to NPR even from here in Bangalore.  Really happy to get this news.  And interesting to see the names of the people who "liked" this post. Hi Shoba, Your book is featured on the NPR Books Tumblr! Check it out: http://nprbooks.tumblr.com/post/170115378528/shoba-narayan-is-a-writer-who-once-lived-with-her Shoba Narayan is a writer who once lived with her husband and kids in Manhattan. Then she moved back to India and ran into her milk lady’s cow in her apartment elevator. Literally. In her memoir The Milk Lady of Bangalore, Narayan gives the outsider a deeper look into what at first appears to just be a strange (and [...]

Algonquin is amazing.  Jacqueline Burke, Brooke Czuka, Amy Gash....thank you thank you thank you. Jacquelynn Burke Publicity Manager,  Algonquin and Algonquin Young Readers Publicity update for The Milk Lady of Bangalore by Shoba Narayan (on sale January 23, 2018) A Barnes and Noble Spring 2018 Discover Selection Recent coverage: Library Journal Starred review February 15, 2018 “[Author Shoba Narayan’s] stories radiate with compassion…An absolute joy to read. Through her close encounters with the bovine kind, Narayan shows how Indian traditions are incorporated into her contemporary way of life.” BookPage Review February 2018 issue “Udderly delight­ful…A herd of often funny and always fascinating bovine [...]

Three books...and mine is one of them.  Thank you Newsday for the inclusion.  Link here and pasted below James Patterson on the Aaron Hernandez story, a mystery from Germany, a memoir of India "Babylon Berlin" by Volker Kutscher. Photo Credit: Picador By Tom Beer [email protected]  @TomBeerBooks Updated January 23, 2018 4:32 PM BABYLON BERLIN, by Volker Kutscher. The first book in a German mystery series, translated by Niall Sellar, is the basis for the Netflix series of the same name. The setting is Berlin in 1929 — decadent capital of Weimar Germany — and the protagonist is vice squad detective Gereon [...]

Normally, publications excerpt the first pages of the book.  That is when the writing is brisk, and draws the readers.  Or at least, that's the assumption. Lit Hub, which I love (along with Maria Popova's Brain Pickings), went against the grain. They excerpted a different section pasted below-- lovely photo of a Desi cow and linked here   MILK, MOTHERHOOD, AND THE LAST REFUGE OF THE SACRED COW SHOBA NARAYAN EXPLORES THE MYTHS OF MILK AND THE BACKSTREETS OF BANGALORE January 23, 2018  By Shoba Narayan Why is milk considered sacred in several cultures, not just in Indian culture? Is it because we begin [...]

On 1/23/18 6:15 PM, Amy Gash wrote: Hi Shoba. Scroll down to see the inclusion of The Milk Lady of Bangalore in the Barnes & Noble Discover Books announcements. You're in good company! Amy https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/announcing-discover-great-new-writers-spring-2018-selections/ Amy Gash Algonquin Books 225 Varick Street, NY, NY 10014  

Anjali Enjeti is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle and a bonafide rock star in the creative writing and teaching world, as you see in her bio here.  So thank you very much, Ms. Anjali, for your kind review in the Minnesota Star Tribune here and below. BOOKS Review: 'The Milk Lady of Bangalore,' by Shoba Narayan NONFICTION: A New Yorker returns home to India and develops a newfound respect for cows. By ANJALI ENJETI Special to the Star Tribune JANUARY 19, 2018 — 8:46AM ALTAF QADRI • ASSOCIATED PRESSA bovine beauty pageant in Rohtak, India.ALTAF QADRI • Associated Press [...]