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A remarkable young woman flees India to chase the dream of self-reinvention in America The orphaned girls of St. Ursula's convent are destined to be nuns or servants, but seventeen-year-old Savi dreams of escape. She is chosen to work as a governess for the wealthy Nandiyar family at their country estate in Tamil Nadu, where she falls for a lively and carefree apprentice sculptor. After the violent and horrific events of a single night, they are forced to flee, leaving their homeland forever in the rearview. Decades later, Savi has become known to all as ""Missy"" and runs a successful driving school in Chicago. She is a pillar of the South Asian community and the mother of two brilliant, stubborn young women, Mansi and Shilpa. But when Varun, a charming doctor with mysterious connections to her past, enters their lives, a chain of events is set off that puts Missy's carefully constructed world in jeopardy. Can Missy outrun her secrets? And, if she is forced to face them, what will become of those she loves?

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""From the Bay of Bengal to the shores of Lake Michigan, Missy traces the incredible life of a woman who escapes her solitary, powerless, and violent past and re-creates herself in the land of opportunity, finally finding family and prosperity but also the burdens of fleeing one's darkest secrets. Raghav Rao's debut novel is a powerful migration story that gives necessary nuance to the American dream and vivid life to the inescapable costs of freedom and reinvention."" —Vu Tran, author of Dragonfish ""Missy is a terrifically absorbing story, rich with the tangled intricacies of Indian and American lives. Its women are fiery and uncompromising as they follow their complex trajectories—I read about them hungrily and wished them the best. Raghav Rao's debut novel isn't just promising, it's truly accomplished."" —Rosellen Brown, author of The Lake on Fire ""Raghav Rao's story of two families, torn apart by murder and reunited across continents by love, is a rich and atmospheric story of passion and crime, redemption and forgiveness. The lush prose sweeps us into the complex lives of two immigrants, fleeing their homes in India in a desperate quest for a better life, yet desolate, lonely, and incomplete in the land of freedom. Missy is, at its core, a tale about the complex meaning of homeland—one that every reader can relate to."" —Harini Nagendra, author of The Bangalore Detectives Club

Author Information

Raghav Rao was born in Mumbai and grew up in London, Los Angeles, and Southern India. He teaches at the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and writes a newsletter about information saturation.

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