Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Alka Joshi | THE SECRET KEEPER OF JAIPUR | 07.15.21

New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi will join us for a virtual event to celebrate The Secret Keeper of Jaipur, her sequel to The Henna Artist. Joshi's new novel once again showcases her rich storytelling and talent for transporting readers to a different cultural place and time with themes that are universal. Here the year is 1969 and Malik, Lakshmi's young helper from the first novel, is now an educated young man apprenticed at the Jaipur Palace and working on building the state-of-the-art public movie house when he becomes ensnared in a smuggling scheme that threatens all he aspires to, including the woman he loves.