No Ordinary Thursday: A Novel
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No Ordinary Thursday: A Novel

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Price
$6.20
Format
Paperback
Pages
335
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1542037754
Dimensions
5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
Weight
12 ounces

Description

About the Author Anoop Judge is the author of The Rummy Club , which won the 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award, and is a 2019 Pushcart Prize nominee for The Awakening of Meena Rawat . A recovering litigator, former TV presenter, and blogger, she has had essays and short stories published in Green Hills Literary Lantern , Rigorous , and Scarlet Leaf Review , among others. Born and raised in New Delhi, Anoop now resides in California. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College and is the recipient of the 2021–2023 Advisory Board Award and Alumni Scholarship. She is married with two nearly grown and fully admirable children. For more information visit www.anoopjudge.com.

Features & Highlights

  • A family, broken by the shattering turns of a single day, will do anything to find their way back to one another.
  • Lena Sharma is a successful San Francisco restaurateur. An immigrant, she’s cultivated an image of conservatism and tradition in her close-knit Indian community. But when Lena’s carefully constructed world begins to crumble, her ties to her daughter, Maya, and son, Sameer―both raised in thoroughly modern California―slip further away.
  • Maya, divorced once, becomes engaged to a man twelve years her junior: Veer Kapoor, the son of Lena’s longtime friend. Immediately Maya feels her mother’s disgrace and the judgment of an insular society she was born into but never chose, while Lena’s cherished friendship frays. Meanwhile, Maya’s younger brother, Sameer, struggles with an addiction that reaches a devastating and very public turning point, upending his already tenuous future.
  • As the mother, daughter, and son are compromised by tragedy, secrets, and misconceptions, they each must determine what it will take to rebuild their bonds and salvage what’s left of their family.

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A rewarding, thought-provoking read.

Lena is the curry queen of San Francisco and a mother to two grown children. As a result of her divorce earlier in life, she has a tenuous relationship with her alcoholic son. Lena’s daughter, who is seven years older than her brother, is involved in a relationship with a younger man that is scandalous in the eyes of the local Indian community. When tragedy strikes Lena’s son Sameer, it further alienates her daughter Maya and the family dynamic shifts, threatening to destroy the delicate relationships for good.

Judge’s third novel explores many parenting themes, including the importance of being present and accepting your children for who they are. Lena begins to reevaluate her relationships with her son and daughter once they are lost to her through catastrophe. The family begins to heal when they are forced to come to terms with the reality of their situations and Lena realizes that she can’t protect her children from making mistakes.

This intense drama has some difficult subject matter that makes it a more challenging read. If abuse and alcoholism are triggers for you, pass on this one. If you enjoy a gripping realistic family drama where tragedy and adversity are worked through and hope emerges, pick this one up. It’s a rewarding, thought-provoking read.

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