What Power Lies In Your Name? ft. a Novelist - Dava Shastri's Last Day (Kirthana Ramisetti)

Why are we so drawn towards fictions when they're not "real"? What does your name mean, and what legacy does it carry? What should representation in fictions look like? This week, we chat with Kirthana Ramisetti, author of the much-anticipated novel Dava Shastri's Last Day, a Good Morning America and Lilly's Library Book Club Pick. Kirthana shares with us the stories behind creating Dava, the unconventional protagonist who is a celebrity, a billionaire, a woman, a wife, a mother/grandmother, a second-gen Indian immigrant. As a former entertainment reporter for Newsday and the New York Daily News, Kirthana has written her fair share of stories about the lives (and deaths) of the rich and famous.