Author Talk: Nalini Jones, The Unbroken Coast w/Sonya Huber

A stunning debut novel set in and around a Mumbai fishing village that follows the friendship between a young girl struggling to find her place in the world and an aging historian reckoning with his past.
On the night his granddaughter is born in America, Professor Francis Almeida rides a bicycle through his quiet Catholic neighborhood in a suburb of Mumbai. It is 1978. He has recently retired, his grown children are scattered across the globe, and for the first time in decades, he is not sure what he should do next. A few streets from his home, in the heart of a Koli fishing village, he encounters a young mother praying for her baby daughter, ill with dengue fever, at the shrine of Our Lady of Navigators. He hopes the child will live.
Nearly a decade later, Francis meets the child again. She is Celia, daughter of a fisherman who is running from a debt collector. When an accident brings their families together, both Celia and Francis find themselves with unexpected new allies.
Spanning the turbulent years when Bombay became Mumbai, at time when environmental and economic pressures are just beginning to change the fortunes of indigenous fisherfolk, The Unbroken Coast is a lyrical novel that explores memory, faith, storytelling, and the nature of home.
"Beautifully, memorably, and soulfully told.” —Kirkus
Join us as author Nalini Jones discusses the book with her Fairfield University colleague Sonya Huber, co-editor of the recent essay collection Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us.

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About Nalini Jones:

Nalini Jones is the award-winning author of The Unbroken Coast and the story collection What You Call Winter. She contributed an essay about folk music in Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O'Connor Means to Us, co-edited by her colleague Sonya Huber. She teaches at Fairfield University.

About Sonya Huber:

Sonya Huber’s nine books include the award-winning Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto. She also teaches at Fairfield University.

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