TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joshi,Alka
TI  - Six days in Bombay
SN  - 9780778368533
AV  - PS3610.O6786 S59 2025
U1  - 813/.6 23/eng/20250328
PY  - 2025///]
CY  - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PB  - Mira
KW  - Sher-Gil, Amrita,
KW  - Women artists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Death
KW  - Women painters
KW  - Women nurses
KW  - Multiracial women
KW  - Self-realization in women
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Mumbai (India)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Europe)
KW  - 1918-1945
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographical fiction
N1  - "A novel"--Jacket; "In her first stand-alone novel since ... The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi uses the life of painter Amrita Sher-Gil, the 'Frida Kahlo of India,' as inspiration for the story's beginning to explore how far we'll travel to determine where we truly belong"--Provided by publisher
N2  - "When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she's expected to make a quick recovery, and her nurse, Sona, is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity. Sona, yearning for a larger life, finds herself carried away by Mira's stories of her travels and exploits and is shocked by accounts of the many lovers the painter has left scattered throughout Europe. When Mira dies quite suddenly and mysteriously, Sona falls under suspicion, and her quiet life is upended"--
ER  -