EPISODE · Jul 5, 2022 · 3 MIN
The Keya Das's Second Act by Sopan Deb
from Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Drama · host Eileen Koepp
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Keya Das's Second Act Author: Sopan Deb Narrator: Ulka Simone Mohanty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A “painfully beautiful” (Booklist), heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic leads one Bengali American family down a path toward understanding the importance of family, even when splintered. Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his fifties, he finds himself isolated from his traditional Bengali community after a devastating divorce from his wife, Chaitali; he hasn’t spoken to his older daughter, Mitali, in months. Years before, when his younger daughter, Keya, came out as gay, no one in the Das family could find the words they needed. As each worked up the courage to say sorry, fate intervened: Keya was killed in a car crash. So, when Shantanu finds an unfinished play Keya and her girlfriend had been writing, Mitali approaches the family with a wild idea: What if they were to put it on? It would be a way to honor Keya and finally apologize. Here, it seems, are the words that have escaped them over and over again. Set in the vibrant world of Bengalis in the New Jersey suburbs, this “delightful” (Diksha Basu, author of The Windfall) debut novel is both poignant and, at times, a surprisingly hilarious testament to the unexpected ways we build family and find love, old and new.
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